Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Edward Kennedy campaigned for Humphrey in Boston. Kennedy's brother-in-law Stephen Smith also offered to help. Senator George McGovern joined the Humphrey party in South Dakota. The A.F.L.-C.I.O. leadership ratified George Meany's support and began an urgent, if belated drive to recapture the loyalty of unionists who have been drifting toward George Wallace. The United Auto Workers' liberal executive board-the least friendly labor group because of Walter Reuther's opposition to the war -formally endorsed Humphrey as well...
...Humphrey has felt all along that the dissidents on the near left at least would eventually rally to him. Eugene McCarthy still holds out, but others are falling into line. Some, like Ted Kennedy, have come with good grace, and others, like Ted Sorensen, with none. Sorensen urged votes for Humphrey as the candidate "least likely to sink us all." Antiwar demonstrators still heckle and curse the Vice President (they even booed Kennedy in Boston for appearing with Humphrey), but the foulmouthed fringe may prove more of an asset than a liability in the long...
Jell-O v. Concrete. The opinion polls have consistently portended disaster, but by diminishing margins. Humphrey trailed Nixon by 16 points in an August Gallup poll and 12 points this month. A new national sampling scheduled to come out this week will show Nixon's lead reduced to eight points...
...October, Humphrey expects an even break in the national polls. Humphrey people say that polls in North Carolina, Texas, California and Michigan-generally considered trouble spots for Humphrey-now give him a chance to carry those states...
...such conversation has been precisely recorded, but the dialogue is close to the truth. For if anyone can talk to Hubert Humphrey, it is Dr. Edgar Berman, 53, an ex-surgeon from Baltimore who is not only the candidate's physician without pay but also his close friend, campaign adviser and omnipresent critic. If a Humphrey administration were to have a Colonel House, a Harry Hopkins-or even a Svengali-some jealous campaign aides suggest it would be Edgar Berman...