Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next day, Humphrey visited city hall in Chicago for a 20-minute chat with the mayor. Emerging, Humphrey fulsomely praised Daley as a "constructive force in the Democratic Party" and "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation." What was the former Vice President up to? Clearly, he was out to knit together as best he could his party in Illinois while protecting his own interests. He wanted neither to outrage Daley nor to frustrate Adlai Stevenson. Daley represents the faction that had assured Humphrey the presidential nomination last year; Stevenson symbolizes the younger, more independent element that...
Down in Springfield, Daley's team was having second thoughts. Each of the 25 legislators who heard Humphrey speak was photographed with him, and each received a press release for his home-town newspapers. Those who had stayed away realized they had passed up a chance to appear in the spotlight, at least in the eyes of their constituents. Of the study group, says Stevenson...
...maintained an iron rule over Illinois Democrats for the past 14 years. When the crash comes, says Stevenson, "there'll be a shambles." He adds, "But what have we got to lose?" After all, he points out, in November Daley was unable to carry Illinois for Humphrey. The mayor's choice for Governor, Sam Shapiro, was defeated, as were several other Democratic candidates...
...Daley still has plenty of political clout, he seems nevertheless curiously diminished. With Nixon in Washington, Daley will no longer be receiving those friendly phone calls from the Oval Room of the White House, nor will he be sleeping in Abraham Lincoln's bed on Washington visits. When Humphrey called on the mayor last week, he may well have noticed a symbol of change in Daley's plush office on the fifth floor of city hall. The swinging door that was once supposed to indicate Daley's accessibility to the people has been replaced by a thick...
...December defenders consider the pessimists obtuse and oblivious of the record. For one thing, the men who marry younger women these days are generally marked by conspicuous success or at least a mature sense of their own character; and those qualities go far toward cementing marriage. Humphrey Bogart married Lauren Bacall when he was 45 and she 20. Said he: "The mature man is more experienced. He has read more books, seen more of the world. He knows how to court a woman. He has learned the hundred little courtesies that make her happy she is a woman...