Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flurry of Meetings. Apart from Thieu, Johnson has yet another problem: if he does not get public concessions from Hanoi in response to a bombing halt, he risks the accusation that he is endangering the lives of U.S. servicemen solely to give Hubert Humphrey a political advantage...
...Administration have been driving very hard for an agreement on a bombing halt, accompanied possibly by a ceasefire, in the immediate future." Then the thrust: "I am also told that this spurt of activity is a cynical, last-minute attempt by President Johnson to salvage the candidacy of Mr. Humphrey. This I do not believe." Making the accusation in one breath and disavowing it in the next, he made certain that the charge would be noticed...
...others stated that they would grudgingly support Humphrey as the only alternative to Nixon. Several students said Nixon's call for arms superiority had convinced them to turn to the Vice President. "I'll vote for Humphrey, but only because of what Nixon said about more military spending," one senior said...
Most students said they thought the endorsement would not influence many McCarthy backers to vote for Humphrey. "Everyone has made up his mind already," one student said, "and I don't think this will change anything." Another student said he thought that McCarthy made the endorsement so late in the campaign with the conscious intention of diluting its effect...
...leading worker in the McCarthy campaign, said it was "an unenthusiastic, resentful, grudging endorsement and I don't think he expects it to influence many people." Peretz said he had spoken with McCarthy several days before the endorsement. It was "just fear of Nixon" that made McCarthy endorse Humphrey, Peretz said...