Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reality is hard to quantify in these times. A young (39) conservative Senator from New Hampshire, Gordon Humphrey, found like many of his fellow ideologues that the Carter address was appallingly weak. Liberals like Ted Kennedy were skeptical of the idea of reconstituting the draft in peacetime. Across the House floor there seemed to be chunks and pieces of a national mosaic but nothing holding them together. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick was most animated when Carter mentioned women's rights. Republicans stirred themselves only slightly above polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts...
...Commencement. Clutching a Harvard honorary degree in his withered claw, the cancerridden ex-dictator cites the moral decline of the West as the reason for his downfall, calling for the re-instatement of ROTC at Harvard. President Bok dinies rumors that the Shah was chosen only after both Hubert Humphrey and John Wayne turned down invitations to speak...