Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to believe that Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew will now begin a four-year term in Washington because of the timing of three men. Mayor Richard J. Daley gave up on Hubert Humphrey a little too early, President Johnson sat on his hands a little too long, and Senator Eugene McCarthy did not realize there were other people in this country until it was a little too late...
...this world to whom it matters who is elected President of the U.S. I have no sympathy for Humphrey and his party machine. Perhaps they now realize that the tactics used at the Chicago convention led to their doom. We will now suffer quietly...
...Your tabulation of which candidates were expected to win which states was most accurate. You missed only two of 50 states (Connecticut and Texas went Humphrey). The nine states you listed as tossups split 5 Nixon, 4 Humphrey...
...wake of Richard Nixon's election, speculation inevitably focused on the impact that his narrow victory would have on his ability to govern. Lacking a popular majority, or even a respectable edge over Hubert Humphrey, would he be hamstrung by an opposition Congress and hounded by his always numerous critics? The answer is likely to be: not for a while. After a year of crises and threats of more to come, the nation and the world seem eager for a respite. Moreover, the U.S. has long had a tradition of forbearance toward a new President: a willingness...
...Humphrey sounded the proper note when he met Nixon in Florida two days after the election: "I'm going to want his presidency to be an effective presidency, because as he succeeds, we all succeed." Gracious words from the loser are almost obligatory, but others under less compulsion to be generous to the winner after a close campaign also indicated a readiness to withhold judgment. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, a loyal Wallace man, sent congratulations to "my President." So did George Meany, while Walter Reuther, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr. and Whitney Young Jr. expressed good wishes...