Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Jewish voters, many upper-middle-class whites, Negroes, women, McCarthyites, blue-collar workers, young professionals and white-collar workers in the East, all turned out heavily for Mr. Humphrey. Southerners voted for Mr. Wallace. Apparently Mr. Nixon was elected solely by wealthy white Christian male Americans outside of the South. Amazing...
...Lyndon Johnson was seriously thinking of making amiable Mike Mansfield, majority leader of the Senate, his running mate instead of Hubert Humphrey. That way, the President reasoned, Humphrey could become majority leader, giving L.B.J. far more forceful Senate leadership and Humphrey a bigger reputation for an eventual presidential campaign of his own. It would also have spared Humphrey what was to become one of his most onerous burdens-his overly close association with an unpopular Administration. There were reports last week that Humphrey, too, had some unorthodox ideas this year about his own running mate: he wanted New York...
...sophistication of the Kennedy-style politicians, but with a pock-marked face, heavy eyebrows, and hair brushed flat against his head, he has none of their beauty. His weakness as a candidate he admits implicitly. "Nixon was the only Republican who could have lost to Humphrey," he said. "Anybody who looks like Nixon can always be beaten...
...political future, he might well run for the Senate in 1970 if Eugene McCarthy adheres to his decision not to seek re-election as a Democrat. He could run for Governor of Minnesota in 1970-a choice that Muriel Humphrey, who prefers life in Waverly to that in Washington, would particularly appreciate. And he could be important in the fortunes of Teddy Kennedy. "Some day you will lead the nation," Humphrey told the young Senator several months ago, "and I'm going to help you get the chance...
...Humphrey's options, in any event, are many. Others in the departing Administration will find it harder to remain near the center of power, and some, who have served ever since John Kennedy took office eight years ago, have no desire to do so. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman, one of J.F.K.'s first appointees, announced even before the election that he would resign to head Washington's EDP Technology International Inc., a firm which uses computer technology to solve client countries' sociological and military problems. Wilbur Cohen, who joined the Kennedy Administration as an Assistant...