Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Numerous dissidents are putting pressure on Humphrey to modify his views in exchange for their support. Michigan McCarthyites returned home from Chicago and in a subsequent state Democratic convention pushed through a Viet Nam statement approximating the national convention's rejected minority plank. Thus armed, they may now offer to back Humphrey in exchange for a permanent role in the Michigan party structure...
Virtually every liberal Democratic organization not already for Humphrey may ask some price for its support. The Americans for Democratic Action will meet this week to decide whether to endorse Hubert, and John Kenneth Galbraith boasts: "Only our people can elect him." But, he insists, "we aren't going to endorse the war. We aren't going to endorse the old foreign-policy priesthood that got us into this mess, and we aren't going to endorse the right of the Chicago police to beat up the youngsters who work for us. So everything depends on whether...
Picking Up the Pieces. The most disaffected of the McCarthyites cast themselves in the role of both punisher and redeemer. U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor Donald Kalish, a leader of Los Angeles' Peace Action Council, insists that a Humphrey defeat "must be resounding" so that Democrats will know better next time. Anne Marcus, executive director of Robert (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn's Dissenting Democrats, says more harshly that the party "should be destroyed." In their dream, these apostles of apocalypse see themselves picking up the pieces after the disaster and building a new party...
...Withdrawal. With all that, Republicans and Southern Democrats were in a strong position to block the appointment with a filibuster. Hubert Humphrey challenged Richard Nixon to call Republicans off the filibuster, so that the case could come to a vote, which Fortas would probably win. Nixon refused, but tried to steer a middle course that would not overly displease either liberals or conservatives. He called Fortas an able jurist, expressed his own distaste for a filibuster, but said that he did not want to interfere with a Senate matter...
...contending parties. In Kansas, for example, voters who put their X beside Richard Nixon's name this Nov. 5 will actually be choosing seven Republicans, among them Dean S. Evans Sr., 47, a Salina grain and cattle dealer and regular party contributor. Kansans who prefer Hubert Humphrey will actually vote for seven Democrats, including Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark Gray, 68, a Topeka bank president and U.S. Treasurer under Harry Truman...