Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this Nixon, Humphrey, Wallace, Muskie or Agnew? If you guessed correctly that it was Spiro Agnew, you are qualified to try matching the candidates with the following clues to their character, gathered by TIME correspondents accompanying them on the campaign trail...
Score yourself an expert candidate-watcher if you identified the lint-ball roller as Muskie, the engine expert as Wallace, the sometimes trying spouse as Humphrey, the elephant memory as Nixon's and the spick-and-span man as Spiro Agnew...
...good guy with a little-known sense of humor, somewhere between Will Rogers' and Russell Bakers'." Fentress, with Nixon, is impressed by his perfectly programmed movements. Hugh Sidey and John Austin are also with Nixon, and Charles Eisendrath is traveling with Agnew, Hays Gorey with Humphrey. Arlie Schardt and Roger Williams cover George Wallace, whom they find surprisingly amiable in private but unexciting to cover because he sticks to one speech and seldom bothers with position papers or shifts in strategy...
Inevitably, friendships, or at least mutual tolerance, spring up between the correspondents and the campaigners as they eat, drink and travel thousands of miles together. This week Hays Gorey and Simmons Fentress will swap candidates, Gorey going to Nixon and Fentress to Humphrey. That way, each correspondent aims to get a different perspective on his man and cast a fresh eye on his opponent...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY began swinging hard-at last, said his friends...