Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OVER THE PAST YEAR the American people, through their involvement in the political system of this country, have tested that system and challenged it to come forth with exceptional candidates and creative leadership. The system has answered with Humphrey, Nixon, and Wallace...
...could debate at length the relative merits of Humphrey and Nixon. Humphrey, once relieved of the burdens of Lyndon Johnson's presidency, might be able to lead us out of war. He would perhaps be better able to communicate with the black people of the country and might once again become a spokesman for the poor and the oppressed...
Those McCarthy supporters like Mr. Peretz, who indulge their own bitterness by refusing to back Humphrey against Nixon and Wallace, on the fantastic grounds that there is negligible difference between Humphrey and his right-wing opponents, destroy any pretensions they may have had to sincere concern for social justice and human rights. Affluent inttellectuals can afford to care only about the war and nothing but the war. But I dare them to tell a welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar...
...Student Coalition for Humphrey-Muskie...
...Humphrey's Vietnam position, outlined in his September 30 television address, is "rank and unprincipled opportunism," Peretz wrote. Politicians who find it "quite enough to know that Humphrey would like to find some words to please them" illustrate "how cynical our political culture has become," the article said...