Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other dissidents will get their dissatisfaction on the books by writing in Eugene McCarthy, Black Panther Leader Eldridge Cleaver or Comedian Pat Paulsen. Another tactic is to vote only for congressional and gubernatorial candidates who reflect dissenting views. Among anti-Humphrey Democrats, the hope is that all this will help speed old-line party leaders out of power and permit insurgents to take over...
...evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than the dreams of McCarthyites who expect to take over the Democratic Party after Humphrey loses. That hope is likely to be foiled by party professionals who, unlike the McCarthy amateurs, work at politics full time; much the same happened on the Republican side, when the pros shut out the Rockefeller forces who refused to support Goldwater in 1964. Equally unrealistic is the dissident-Democrat hope...
...bruising battle-particularly when it is among themselves. Their 1968 performance is typical. Irish-born Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, 61, brother of the late mayor of New York William O'Dwyer and an early supporter of Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential bid, adamantly shuns Hubert Humphrey and the national Democratic ticket, refusing to compromise his single-minded opposition to the Viet Nam conflict. Party regulars are supporting him lukewarmly if at all. Despite a loyal army of 25,000 youthful McCarthyite volunteers, O'Dwyer seems certain to furnish liberal Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits, 64, with...
While Richard Nixon and Humphrey are in a close struggle for the state's 43 electoral votes, the New York Daily News straw poll last week showed Javits defeating O'Dwyer by better than 2 to 1. Nonetheless, Javits takes no chances. In grueling 15-to 20-hour days, he stumps the state, replaying his record as a champion of urban causes and civil rights and his own call for peace in Viet Nam. Once a supporter of L.B.J.'s war policy, Javits began voicing disquiet in February 1967. To O'Dwyer, that makes Javits...
...former Congressman and Cincinnati councilman, it has been a long, long time from May to November. Last spring, heavily supported by labor unions, Gilligan unseated Ohio's moss-backed Democratic Senator Frank Lausche in a primary. But when Gil ligan, a Viet Nam dove, pointedly refused to support Humphrey before the Chicago convention, the unions slammed shut their coffers. Not until October, when their feud with Gilligan was finally papered over, did they reopen them...