Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidential election might have served to bring the issue into focus earlier, but it failed to do so. It was the Johnson Administration that had started Sentinel, and Vice President Hubert Humphrey chose not to campaign against it then (he is now a vocal opponent). For his part, Nixon was warning against a possible "security gap" vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and thus encouraging the ABM's backers. A new Administration and a new Congress offered...
Vindictiveness is not one of Hubert Humphrey's vices. Loquacity certainly is. During his first lecture as a professor at Macalester College in St. Paul, the former Vice President got on the subject of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley. Looking back at his presidential campaign, Humphrey commented that the riots during the Chicago convention were a "tragedy" and "I was a victim." Among numerous other reflections, he observed that Mayor Daley "didn't exactly break his heart...
Reacting last week with an extraordinary public display of spleen, Daley spluttered that Humphrey had not been his personal choice for President. His preference, he said obliquely, was "the name of a former President"-though it was no secret that the mayor had held out for the unavailable Ted Kennedy at the Democratic Convention...
Company Time. The new President offered Humphrey the ambassadorship to the United Nations within days after the election, when the two met briefly at an airport near Miami. He repeated his offer several times by telephone. Not only would it have placed Humphrey in one of the new Administration's more conspicuous posts; it would also have provided ample opportunity for political fence mending on company time, as it were. As an added lure, Humphrey was offered veto power over all Democratic appointees to the Nixon Administration in Cabinet, sub-Cabinet, White House and regulatory-agency posts...
...Humphrey refused, of course, primarily because the U.N. job would not have permitted him the necessary latitude to criticize the incumbent's policies. When the Vice President decided to take leave of government entirely, Nixon called on his own experience to make the move a bit easier. Remembering his dejection at having to travel back to California aboard a commercial aircraft in 1960, the President arranged for Humphrey and his wife to arrive in Minnesota aboard a presidential 707 Air Force jet-a bigger plane than he normally commanded as Vice President...