Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard and Radcliffe students are overwhelmingly unenthusiastic about the Nixon, Humphrey, Wallace choice for president in 1968, according to two polls released yesterday...
...WHRB poll revealed that McCarthy is still the favored candidate among the members of the Class of 1972. Twenty-seven per cent said they would write-in the Minnesota senator's name rather than vote for any of the three major party candidates. Vice President Humphrey, who received the highest vote of the official candidates, polled 24 per cent...
...conservative state is becoming more Republican each vear. In this context pro-war liberals like Sen. Fred Harris, co-chairman of Humphrey's pre-convention drive, are about the best McCarthy supporters expect. Moderates should continue to hold the party. In academic centers like Stillwater and Norman, McCarthy generated significant grass-roots organization. In Tulsa and Oklahoma City, liberals tended more to Kennedy, but worked for McCarthy in most cases following the assassination...
...very close last spring. Twentyfive year-old former SDS official Vance Opperman, chairman of the Hennepin County (Minneapolis) party, is a man to be watched. Many consider Opperman--the epitome of the New Politics-style--the next "boy mayor" of Minneapolis, a title once held by one Hubert H. Humphrey...
Unity and leadership is badly needed by both the liberals and the party itself. If the new leadership is liberal, they can probably have the party. Party senatorial nominee John Gilligan who gave up labor support rather than make a pre-convention endorsement of Humphrey will be swept under in the Nixon landslide. Young liberals like Dick Celeste of Cleveland formerly of the Peace Corps are hoping to build "a tangible issue orientation" within the party. From that base they might work out to local and then state-wide candidate contests. Gilligan, U.S. Rep. Charles Vanik, former astronaut John Glenn...