Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey would, of course, prefer to satisfy all of the party's rebellious factions and keep them in the fold, particularly the antiwar people. He took a significant step in that direction last week by enlisting two impressive public figures. George Ball resigned...
Ambassador to the U.N. to serve as a foreign policy adviser (see below). Ball's predecessor, Arthur Goldberg, signed on to help direct the Humphrey campaign in New York. Because both men were in varying degrees at odds with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam, their support helped put some daylight between Humphrey and the President. More will be needed before the Vice President can establish himself as his own man. But Humphrey is beginning to score some points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential...
Without Enthusiasm. Recent polls give Humphrey a slight lead in Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri. But most of the polls show him trailing Nixon. In state after state, the Humphrey machine is in disrepair, or nonexistent. In Texas, Humphrey does not even have a campaign manager. The New York situation is so chaotic that Humphrey operatives are bypassing the state organization to set up an independent-citizens' committee. In California, Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh is serving as honorary co-chairman of the Humphrey campaign, but amazingly enough, is also endorsing a write-in effort in behalf of McCarthy. The effort...
...Kenneth Galbraith, chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, was less than passionate when he allowed: "I expect in the end that I will keep my franchise as a Democrat." Because he is in a tough campaign for re-election in South Dakota, McGovern, an old Senate friend of Humphrey's, is keeping the Vice President at arm's length...
...Sprig of Peace. Democrats with antiwar constituencies feel that Humphrey has no coattails-and might even drag them down. Strategically, their position resembles that of many G.O.P. liberals during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign. Thus, while Kennedy Operatives Stephen Smith and Theodore Sorensen have endorsed Humphrey, they are expending most of their energy on New York Democrat Paul O'Dwyer's effort to unseat Republican Senator Jacob Javits. When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds...