Word: humphrey
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...Malley, 42, has mastered that kind of retail politicking as a lifelong political buff. His parents met while working at the Democratic National Committee, and he was doing cheers for Hubert Humphrey by age 3. Gary Hart bought him his first legal beer at 21. O'Malley grew up in Washington's tony Maryland suburbs but fell hard for blue-collar Baltimore while attending the University of Maryland's law school there...
...well, and Richard Nixon displayed a strange combination of obsession and guilelessness. Gerald Ford, of course, "made golf a contact sport." Reagan "once broke 100 and that's pretty good for a man on horseback." Hope saves his real affection for celebrities little known for their low handicaps, including Humphrey Bogart and Ruby Keeler. The wildest amateur: Babe Ruth. The smoothest: Joe Louis. Even nongolfers can enjoy the gossip, the jokes and some 100 black-and-white photographs of performers and politicians. Although Hope claims that his scores are now closer to his weight than his age, his follow-through...
...more reverent he feels, the more irreverent the throwaway lines: "Even the Christian God tactfully divides his roles into three, and Frank did his damnedest to divide himself into at least two, but he lacked the infinite capacity." It can all get a little like Woody Allen playing Humphrey Bogart playing St. Augustine...
...euphoric reception in Britain last December: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher saying she could do business with him; former Defense Minister Denis Healey finding Gorbachev like a "Western intellectual, a poet." Then came Dolan's version: ominous shots of Soviet troops parading and an overlong interview with Republican Senator Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, who believes that so long as there is fighting in Afghanistan, there should be no talking at Geneva. (Secretary of State George Shultz, who in committee hearings can listen stonily to most congressional critics, recently admonished Humphrey, "Come off it, Senator.") As NBC Correspondent John Cochran explained...
...when Lyndon Johnson went to the Bethesda National Naval Hospital for repair of an abdominal hernia, he summoned reporters to his bedside three hours after he left surgery to let them know he was very much in control. Under an informal agreement with Johnson, Vice President Hubert Humphrey had been given permission to exercise the power of the Chief Executive if the President was unable...