Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President, his delivery lessened the impact of his speech; it read better than he read it. Unfortunately, the line that may be longest remembered was a slip of the tongue. Citing some of his party's illustrious members of the past, he named "Hubert Horatio Hornblower ... er ... Humphrey." Carter also went on too long. Toward the end of his 51-min. speech, some delegates were yawning and checking their watches...
...think that the public takes that with a lot of salt. They know that we politicians get tired, make mistakes, get angry, just as they do in their own lives. I remember Hubert Humphrey once said that Kennedy had all the substance of a paper doily, and then a week later, Hubert said that [Kennedy's stand on an issue] was the greatest thing in the history of mankind. You know, doilies are important...
...must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is its driver?quick-tempered, belligerent, opinionated, chatty, protective, frank and possibly nuts. He usually speeds, and sometimes he drives on the sidewalk. His enemies are "crackpots." To everyone within earshot he asks, "How'm I doing?" Two out of three of those surveyed have answered: good...
...plates. When the Pope had difficulty opening a present that Johnson handed him, L.B.J. whipped a jackknife from his pocket and cut the string. He hated knots, especially when tied with red tape. In his impatience to get things done, he browbeat and literally manhandled associates. Hubert Humphrey recalled having been kicked in the shins affectionately but painfully. The Texas hill-country rancher would prod men as well as cattle. Yet, said Humphrey, "many people looked upon him as a heavyhanded man. That was not really true. He was sort of like a cowboy making love...
...when Hubert Humphrey was challenging Front-Runner Carter, party reformers were pushing for a rule to prevent delegates from disregarding the wishes of the Democratic voters back home. One supporter of the proposed binding rule was Edward Kennedy, who felt that if Carter did not win the nomination, "it would be a real distortion of the expressed will of the working members of the Democratic Party." When the rule was approved by the Democratic National Committee in 1978, it was largely due to the backing of several Kennedy supporters, who are now spearheading the drive to repeal...