Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAST MONTH, the grape strikers have become increasingly concerned over the probability of Nixon's election. Whereas Humphrey has endorsed the boycott, Nixon has strongly opposed it, terming it "a descent into lawlessness...
Peretz, who was co-chairman of the McCarthy national finance committee, called opponents of the war in Vietnam who are supporting Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey people who "have got to be where the action is, however high the cost...
...Bogeyman image as the last plausible rationalization for caring about the 1968 electoral system. Maybe there is no one to vote for this year, but at least there are Nixon and Wallace to vote against. Angry students, ready to blow up all three candidates, have been enticed back in Humphrey campaign offices, which had shrewdly re-named themselves "Stop Nixon Headquarters...
...wizened puppet moved across the stage, he fit the bogeyman pattern, and his first few words confirmed the image. At first he told a few forced jokes about Humphrey ("he talks about a debate--why, he is a debate"), did some buttering-up of the locals ("I am grateful to be John Volpe's friend"), and then took a tentative swing into the platitudes of The Nixon Speech--the same one he has used since the convention...
...presumption of the highest order for Mr. Mott to think that members of the McCarthy Finance Committee, who were mere servants of a great cause, are entitled to negotiate with Mr. Humphrey about his positions...