Word: humphrey
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...support for his claim that he has been shortchanged by party rules, since he won 21% of the popular vote but only 8% of the delegates (see following story). Jackson mocked the vice-presidential screening process as a "p.r. parade of personalities," then belittled Mondale by saying that Hubert Humphrey was the "last significant politician out of the St. Paul-Minneapolis" area. Mondale brushed off the insults, yet he is in an awkward position. If he bows to Jackson, he offends other supporters, particularly Jews, who are deeply suspicious of Jackson. If he resists, he risks losing Jackson...
Mondale had also earned a moment of self-congratulation. He had shed enough of his Norwegian reserve to kill the old suspicion, once expressed by his Minnesota mentor Hubert Humphrey, that he lacked "fire in the belly." Still carrying Humphrey's banner of liberalism and contending that his was the party of compassion, Mondale bucked the austere, antigovernment spirit of the times. At several junctures he was down and almost out; each time he bounced back and recaptured the lead. If he scores his expected nomination victory, he will start the November race a heavy underdog. But he will start...
Some strategists think that the selection of a Vice President should be viewed as an exercise in damage control. Reason: polls often show that candidates score higher ratings on their own than with any likely running mate. Says Ted Van Dyk, an aide to Hubert Humphrey in 1968: "Almost nobody helps...
Actually, Humphrey's choice for No. 2, Senator Edmund Muskie, did help the ticket in one way: he delivered his home state of Maine to the Democrats for only the third time in this century. Traditionally, the ability to serve up his own state has been the minimal campaign boost expected of a running mate, and sometimes the only one: when Chester Arthur ran for Veep in 1880 on a ticket headed by James Garfield, he did not venture out of New York for the entire campaign-and carried it. In 1960, Pollster Louis Harris found that Lyndon Johnson...
Although it is not mentioned often, there lurks in some minds an atavistic suspicion that women are not stable enough to occupy positions of leadership. Fourteen years ago, Dr. Edgar Berman, a friend of Hubert Humphrey's, produced a baroque masterpiece of sexism when he proposed that women were unfit for public office because every month they were subject to a "raging hormonal unbalance." It is a pernicious and ridiculous idea that is refuted by experience (women in positions of power do not behave any differently from men) and by logic (presumably women of mature leadership age would have passed...