Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the writers who have written exclusive articles for the magazine in the past are Richard M. Nixon; Hubert H. Humphrey; George P. Baker, Dean of Harvard Business School; Dr. Fritz Machlup, Professor of International Finance at Princeton; Marshall I. Goldman of the Russian Research Center at Harvard; Henry ford; William Buckley Jr.; Ralph Nader and Drew Pearson...
Daley claimed that Humphrey lost Illinois because he campaigned only briefly downstate. "We carried Cook County for Humphrey by 220,000," he boasted. "I hope the good former Vice President would look at the figures." Humphrey may indeed have looked at the figures, which also show that Daley did substantially better by the two previous Democratic candidates. For John Kennedy he got 99,000 more votes in Cook County; for Lyndon Johnson, 421,000 more than Humphrey in Cook County...
...mayor is still miffed at Humphrey for addressing a rump group of disaffected Illinois Democrats last month. But, as Humphrey commented, "nothing I've said or done should have provoked" Daley's reaction. After all, it was only four weeks ago that Hubert called His Honor "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation...
...Hubert Horatio Humphrey tells the story, traffic at a Miami intersection was piling up around a lady who had stalled her car. Lights changed, tempers rose, horns honked. So H.H.H., followed by his Secret Service bodyguard, stepped from his car and pushed the stalled vehicle over to the side of the road. Humphrey then smiled in on the lady and her daughter. The woman pondered the familiar face. "Are you from the bank?" she asked. "Madam," offered the Secret Service man, "this is the Vice President." "Of what?" countered the lady. "Mother," whispered the daughter, "that...
...George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and Richard M. Neustadt '69. Neustadt, a council spokesman, stressed that the group was "not in any sense radical," and included "nearly equal proportions" of former supporters of Senator Robert F. Kennedy '48, Senator Eugene J. McCarthy and former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey...