Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...land a mere 40 minutes late. Though his talk ran longer than planned, Bailey, Murphy and Senator Abraham Ribicoff gradually pushed him back on schedule, and the Connecticut foray turned into a success. The Constitution Plaza hecklers were gentle, Waterbury's workers turned out in droves, and Humphrey finally flew to New York in high humor. Murphy, relieved but exhausted, boarded a plane for San Diego to handle this week's set of traps...
Late in every presidential campaign there comes a time for Cabinet making, the traditional guessing game about the candidate's preferences for the top posts in his Administration. In Hubert Humphrey's camp last week, the speculation went beyond that stage. The word was that Humphrey, if elected, might create two additional Cabinet posts: one for youth, the other for consumers. Still, most of the guessing ranges around the men who might fill traditional Cabinet posts in the next Administration. Some possibilities...
...HUMPHREY. The Vice President's staff promises "surprises," but quite a few non-surprises seem as likely. Robert Nathan, a vice chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, will probably get a Cabinet job; he is now heading Humphrey's task forces studying various issues. Economist Walter Heller, onetime chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, will probably become Secretary of the Treasury. Clark Clifford may be persuaded to stay as Secretary of Defense. The post of Secretary of State could go to George Ball or McGeorge Bundy...
John Gardner, who resigned as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in January, might be coaxed back in a Humphrey Administration. Robert McNamara and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes are mentioned interchangeably for the departments of Transportation and of Housing and Urban Development. Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris is being considered for Agriculture or Interior along with North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel is also a possibility for Agriculture. A Humphrey Cabinet would almost certainly contain Republicans, and might include a woman, perhaps Patricia Roberts Harris, former Ambassador to Luxembourg...
...swap the job of minority leader for the Speaker's gavel. Whoever is President, moreover, will be in for serious trouble. A Democratic Congress, even a conservatively oriented one, would probably be hostile to Nixon; a conservative Congress, even one controlled by Democrats, would probably thwart Hubert Humphrey regularly...