Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once, McCarthy gave a brief, punchy speech. It was primarily aimed at his audience--he talked about the Pied Piper, rats running into the river, Hubert Humphrey's convenient deafness, all the standard lines to arouse those who had fought the good fight and gotten smashed...
Nixon's "probable victory," he wrote, "is likely to sweep into office many Congressmen and some Senators far to his own right... The greater the margin of Humphrey's defeat, the more the right will feel...
...have to take issue with Richard Betts' letter which appeared in Wednesday's issue of the Crimson. I think the letter is typical in many ways of the very emotional and sometimes irrational manner in which the Humphrey campaign has been conducted--especially that part which has sought to "bring back" the dissident McCarthy group...
...support HHH Dr. Peretz and other McCarthy supporters "destroy any pretensions they have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights" is simply asinine. In the first place, it is anything but obvious to me that a "sincere concern for social justice" necessitates a vote for Hubert Humphrey, whose sincere concern for that war in Vietnam has seriously impaired the domestic programs for social justice in the United States. What ever happened to the Poverty Program, the OEO, and countless other programs promised to the poor and Black Americans by the Johnson-Humphrey Administration? The war is making...
...lectures the McCarthy supporters about social justice and human rights. He seems to forget what happened in Chicago, what is happening in Vietnam, and what has happened in this country to the concerns of social justice and human rights since the beginning of the war. Just what was Hubert Humphrey doing when this war destroyed the hopes of social justice in America and violated the human rights of thousands in Vietnam? Karl O. Rohlich...