Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expert's Code. Nonetheless, his two months' service should be invaluable to Humphrey. The Vice President's campaign was a shambles before O'Brien took control. Among other things, he persuaded Humphrey to release any delegates bound to him by the unit rule, a gesture that cost him only an estimated 40-50 delegate votes but earned him considerable good will. O'Brien is the only major Democratic figure who has direct and cordial relations with all segments of the party-the partisans of Kennedy, Humphrey, Johnson and McCarthy...
...Humphrey can only keep his fingers crossed that Muskie does well in both places, for he needs all the help he can get. His strategists do not expect his campaign to hit its stride until early October. They hope that he will hit a well-timed peak just before Nov. 5, and that Nixon will start to sag by then. All the same, there is some question whether this would leave him enough time to shake off the L.B.J. collar and do some persuasive barking...
Starting with John Kennedy's race for the Senate in 1952, Lawrence Francis O'Brien's string of major political successes has included J.F.K.'s 1958 reelection, the presidential victory in 1960 and then Lyndon Johnson's landslide in 1964. As Hubert Humphrey knew when he persuaded the veteran tactician to serve as his campaign manager and as chairman of the Democratic National Committee, O'Brien's impact in any campaign is not merely talismanic. In the art of political organization, Larry O'Brien is a dry-land Nelson. In J.F.K...
...Overhaul. Last week, as they took command of the barnacled party machinery, Humphrey and O'Brien moved quickly to discard some of the Pedernales Mafia. John Criswell, an L.B.J. subaltern who antagonized many delegates with the stringent security rules he imposed as manager of the Chicago convention, resigned as treasurer of the National Committee, along with 16 other members. The 72-member committee staff will be more than doubled, with most of the new workers coming from the Vice President's campaign staff...
...partly to protect that record that O'Brien is now laboring for Humphrey's election. "If we fail," he says, "it will signal a slowdown in the nation, an unwinding of what we have done...