Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Eugene McCarthy did not, contrary to wide expectation, endorse Vice-President Hubert Humphrey's candidacy at a rally for 11 Senatorial peace candidates at the Boston Gardens last night...
Though attacks against Presidential candidates Richard Nixon and George Wallace were frequent and scathing, McCarthy and the other speakers hardly mentioned Humphrey. "I am here to urge continuing commitment, particularly to Senate races," McCarthy said. "The Senate has the substance to stand most courageously on the issues we've raised during our campaign...
...totally. Since McCarthy's aim "from the outset" was to lead a campaign is "only shadow boxing." "Nice guy McCarthy has a minor tactical difference with Johnson," he continued to a rising chorus of boos. "McCarthy's movement is over now. McCarthy exists as a feeble support for Humphrey, afraid, as he says, to go all the way in support because the kids will think he's sold out," Schwartz said...
Republican charges about "mismanagement" of the Pentagon are misleading, but they appeal to voters for several reasons. Nixon stands in sharp contrast to Hubert Humphrey, who has emphatically stated that the United States has enough nuclear weapons. Humphrey's problem is that he seems willing to let the Russians catch up with, or possibly overtake, the United States. Such a position tends to worry most voters. And Nixon's concern about arms-control talks--that they should be negotiated "from strength and never from weakness"--seems more prudent than Humphrey's enthusiastic endorsement of arms negotiations...
...VACUITY of Humphrey, Nixon & Co. only underscores the need to put strong liberals into the U.S. Senate. Such men can be counted on the hands and feet, but there is work to be done for them in Massachusetts (where none happens to be running) and even by non-voters. Tonight's "11 Votes for Peace" benefit qualifies on both counts...