Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Psychedelic Lights. When Kennedy was killed, anticipated contributions from businessmen, who did not like Humphrey so much as they feared Kennedy, failed to materialize. Eugene McCarthy soaked up some cash that otherwise would have gone to Humphrey during the summer. Finally, Nixon's 16-point lead in the Gallup poll after the G.O.P. Convention persuaded many potential big contributors to save their money for more hopeful causes...
...recent weeks things have improved. Wall Street Financiers John Loeb and Sidney Weinberg have done some strenuous pleading that has begun to pay off. Humphrey is even going after the loose change. Last week he paid a post-midnight visit to a Manhattan discotheque called Nepantha, where the younger, swingier set had paid $50 a head for the Humphrey cause. As he stood in the psychedelic lights, someone yelled: "You're beautiful, baby!" The event netted...
Kingsley Hopkins Murphy climbed off a plane in Hartford and wearily wondered what perils awaited his boss, Hubert Humphrey, in Connecticut. Murphy had a week to "run the traps," as every advance man should, and his brain was abuzz with the axioms of his craft: "Make them come to you; get typists and a legman quick; be anonymous; don't spill news-dribble it out; stress unity; keep calm; avoid nonunion bands; don't make cameras shoot into the sun; be ready to pick up strays; beware of national committeewomen...
...standard list Murphy added the Humphrey postulates-no feasts in his room, "just cheddar cheese, saltine crackers, diet root beer, Canadian Club and soda, 'wine of the country,' usually ten bottles of beer." Most of all, Murphy dreaded the "dragon's tail effect"-that frightening phenomenon in which a mere twitch at the tail's base can be come a paroxysm by the time it reaches the tip. By lingering an hour over schedule in one place, the Humphrey cavalcade can make a shambles of a whole day's tight schedule...
...Good to Believe. Murphy, 38, smokes a pipe, has red hair and is nicknamed "the Crimson Fox." He has handled 40 advance assignments for Humphrey since 1964, eleven of them in this campaign. Last week he felt "like a man in the middle of the Atlantic in winter in a 3-ft. canoe." Experience warned him that the simple scheduled plans were too good to believe. Humphrey was to arrive in Hartford after midnight, catch some sleep, and next morning chat with suburban housewives in nearby Bloomfield. Then he was to fly in his Boeing 727 to Stratford...