Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
...last month helped found a legislative study group in the state capital of Springfield. The group's aim is to end the feudal system of Democratic party politics within the state and to broaden participation in policymaking. To give the group the aura of legitimacy, Stevenson asked Hubert Humphrey to drop by and confer the blessing of his titular party leadership...
Numerically, the Daley tactics appeared to work. Of 99 Democratic legislators, only 25 showed up for the meeting in Springfield. Humphrey, however, insisted that the absence of the Da-leymen didn't bother him. He added: "I intend to encourage the formation of groups like this all over the country, in all 50 states...
...assassination of Robert Kennedy (they felt they had sensationalized their coverage of him) and over the Chicago Convention riots (Mayor Daley was right, the nation said), because of their guilt about actually affecting the our come of a presidential election, these journalists chose to lay off Nixon and Humphrey during the presidential campaign of the fall. As a result, Nixon was allowed to run a public relations show that left him virtually untouched by anyone. This was one of the few campaigns in history where the candidates were not faced with crises created by the campaign itself. Americans elected...
Idealistic young people chanting "shut up and drop dead" were interrupted four times by Vice President Humphrey. The interruptions were part of a speech which the youths charged had been "planned...