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...allegedly paid for by an organization calling itself Americans with Hart and broadcast repeatedly in Spanish to South Texas, classed Mondale with "los enemigos" of John, Robert and Edward Kennedy, whom Hispanic voters revere. Mondale has never directly opposed a Kennedy for office, though he supported other candidates-Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter-in presidential campaigns...
...need a new direction. It is better to lose an election going in the right direction than win going in the wrong direction." Some blacks carry that logic to its literal conclusion. Asked if she feared that a vote for Jackson would actually help Reagan, Chicago Secretary Selestine Humphrey answered, "I don't want to see Reagan back, but if that's the price black people have to pay for some respect, I say let's pay it." The message to white Democrats is that black voters can no longer be taken for granted because,they have...
...major speech last week in Cincinnati, Mondale began sounding less like Hubert Humphrey and more like, well, Gary Hart. With stirring Kennedyesque rhetoric, Mondale intoned, "We must make history, not just watch it. We must invent the future, not just accept it." In the speech he referred to the future, a patented Hart byword, a total of 15 times...
...March of Folly not only provides historical insights but also provokes questions about our present political leaders. George Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury under President Eisenhower, warns his superiors that "disaster would result from 'a military program that scorned the resources and problems of our economy'" by increasing the budget deficit. Advisors such as Edwin O. Reischauer see tragedy in the fact that the West "allowed the Indochinese nationalism to become a Communist cause." In the follies of the past we see shades of the policy of the present. Tuchman laments the failure of the world's past leaders...
Hart and Mondale come out of opposing foreign policy schools within the Democratic Party. Mondale was shaped by the cold war, as first waged by Harry Truman (whose 1947 Truman Doctrine sweepingly extended U.S. protection to "free peoples" everywhere) and later taught by Mondale's mentor, Hubert Humphrey. The enemy was global Communism, which had to be contained by the threat or use of force from Europe to Korea. Under President Jimmy Carter, Mondale joined in a foreign policy that stressed human rights over anti-Communist ideology. The former Vice President says he is now a "mature internationalist...