Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spent a month with the Resistance after the Humphrey demonstration in September planning the same kind of reception for Nixon. We were going to have loudspeakers and a ladder and we were going to toss it up as Nixon began to speak and ask him about the war and the draft. Then some members of Progressive Labor Party came to our nightly planning sessions. They were against the war too, but they wanted to know what our demonstrations were supposed to accomplish...
...tried to organize in the crowd at the Humphrey demonstration. I had seen the faces of the women with Humphrey buttons as we yelled "Bulllllllllll-shit! Bullllllll-shit!" and "Heil Hitler!" at everything Humphrey said. We knew we wouldn't convince them...
...ALWAYS wanted to answer that we were changing the minds of the ruling class. Teddy looking really sad when we yelled "Selllllll-out!" at him too. The first time a Kennedy had been booed in Boston. Humphrey had even cut his prepared speech to shout back at us. He promised to "do everything in my power to end the war if you elect me President." I had been in the first row and I was sure that Humphrey had looked at me during the yelling and had seen my clenched fist and work shirt with rolled-up sleeves...
...party's far left to consider founding an independent movement. This could take the form of either a McCarthy-like revolt within the party or an effort to form a new party. At the same time, the prospects of other possible candidates are in flux: ∙HUBERT HUMPHREY. Now that Eugene McCarthy has renounced ambition for another Senate term, Humphrey will almost surely seek his seat in Minnesota next year and enjoy a new national platform. By tradition, Humphrey should be the titular head of the party...
...with the close but bitterly divisive 1968 campaign behind him, Humphrey probably could not run for the presidency again without reducing the party to a shambles, splitting off the younger, activist wings that barely tolerated him last year. ∙EDMUND MUSKIE. In the first six months of this year, Muskie crisscrossed the nation on lecture tours that built his popularity among both regular and irregular Democrats. Last week he said he will resume his travels in the fall. In some ways, he is the most promising Democratic prospect-and doubtless the one who benefits most from Kennedy's troubles...