Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until recently, the war in Viet Nam was a dormant issue in the 1968 presidential election campaign-compared with law and order, the cities, and even inflation. The chance of a bombing pause brought it back into sudden political prominence. Both Nixon and Humphrey strategists agree that a break in the war could help Humphrey, the Administration's defender, by as much as two percentage points in the popular vote on Election Day. With such big, key states as New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan now rated as tossups, a bombing halt could conceivably give Humphrey a significant though probably...
Improvisation. In a sense, Nixon was merely getting even. Humphrey has attempted to equate Nixon with Wallace and make the Republican ticket synonymous with reaction and recession, and was still at it last week. Winning the presidency, he said, is "not worth a compromise with extremism." Again: "You cannot afford to have people in control of your government who believe that a little higher rate of unemployment is good for you." He admonished New York Democrats to "improvise," and for invidious inspiration he observed: "If the British after Dun kirk hadn't improvised, Hitler would have had England...
...Humphrey to continue to campaign in this vein is hardly admirable but at least logical. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if he can awaken old phobias about Nixon. Whether it is prudent politics for Nixon suddenly to begin emulating his rival's bare-knuckled tactics is another question. The kind of speeches he made last week could serve to revive images of him as a reckless partisan. This can only spur Democrats to fight harder in the campaign's closing days...
Against overpowering evidence, Humphrey himself maintains a visceral conviction that he can still win. "I'm down in the Farm Belt and in the Rocky Mountains," he says. "I know that. But I'm going to win the big states and the big electoral vote, and I'm going to win the election." Jetting from New York to Texas to California last week, seeking to rekindle traditional party loyalty among Jews, Negroes and Spanish-Americans, Humphrey rasped appeals and encouragement to his troops...
WITH one week to go in the presidential campaign, Hubert Humphrey's late surge has whittled Republican leads in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington to almost nothing and placed several more states in the tossup category. Still, the Democrats cannot claim to have won any new states, and a nationwide survey by TIME correspondents shows that Richard Nixon is likely to carry 29 states commanding 278 Electoral College votes (needed for election: 270 votes...