Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prominent Boston pollster predicted yesterday that Hubert H. Humphrey will win a "substantial" victory over Richard M. Nixon in Massachusetts on Tuesday...
Becker conducted a state-wide poll in late September for the Boston Globe which gave Humphrey 44 per cent of the vote, Nixon 31, and Wallace 8, with 17 per cent undecided, but he feels that much of the large undecided vote will support Wallace...
Bitter Exception. Any such solution is certainly anathema to the present Administration, would probably be distasteful to the next. Humphrey has said he is "determined" to keep joblessness at a minimum; Nixon vows to fight inflation "without increasing unemployment." In Washington, Chief White House Economic Adviser Arthur Okun took exception to the view that braking measures would have to be continued for very long. Inflation, he warned, might be less of a hazard than a prolonged slowdown, which could bring on "a stall and perhaps a tailspin...
...Mitchell, speaking on "Communism in the U.S.A.," said that the defeat of Hubert Humphrey would be proof of "the irrelevance of liberalism" to the problems of contemporary society. "Even if Humphrey wins," she said, "it will only be because his New Deal smile has become a mouth-piece for 'law and order' blacklash...
Many observers predicted that last night's announcement would help Vice President Humphrey in his uphill fight against front-running Richard Nixon in next Tuesday's Presidential election...