Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crusaders turned to bitterness when it became obvious that their leader could never win the Democratic nomination. The young, the angry and the disenchanted registered their vote on the streets of Chicago, and they were answered by the clubs of August. That traumatic clash may well have cost Hubert Humphrey the presidency. Richard Nixon, starting earlier and astutely divining the mood of a majority outraged by violence and disorder, won the election less by promising cures for America's ills than by decrying them...
...Nixon made several appointments: >Charles W. Yost, 61, an author and retired career diplomat, became the surprise choice as Ambassador to the United Nations. Yost is a Democrat, but not the sort of prominent party man that Nixon had been seeking to give his Administration a bipartisan touch. Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy and Sargent Shriver all turned down the assignment, which traditionally has had more prestige-and problems-than power. Shriver had seemed the likeliest prospect, but is understood to have run into resistance from his Kennedy in-laws. However, Nixon intends to keep Shriver as Ambassador to Paris, where...
Johnson, who entered Bethesda Naval Hospital with a temperature of 101.6, was one of many notables felled by the virus. Others: Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Mamie Eisenhower, Senator Edmund Muskie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Earle Wheeler, and White House National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. Mayors seemed susceptible; Atlanta's Ivan Allen Jr. and Boston's Kevin White joined Daley on the sick list...
...G.O.P. readied itself for Jan. 20, Democratic leaders still eyed one another warily and scanned the distant horizon. There was an appearance of cohesion: Hubert Humphrey had led the Democrats to a defeat but not to a debacle. Most encouraging was that in Senator Edward Kennedy the party saw a shining champion who had not been bloodied at all in the conflict-one, moreover, who offered the hope of future victory...
Many Democrats have already written off Humphrey as a possible contender on two counts: both as a loser and be cause of age-he will be 61 in 1972. But Hubert, tanned, jovial and buoyant as ever, seems almost eager to face another presidential test. Last week his wife Muriel told an anecdote that does much to explain the insatiable fascination the presidency holds for men who have once made the race. At a recent White House reception for the Prime Minister of Iran, says Muriel, "Hubert held my hand as we came down the great stairs from the President...