Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really part of the mainstream of American enterprise, and that they should be brought into it through the classic means: ownership of business. Richard Nixon has called for a mixture of Government loans, tax incentives, private business aid and Negro self-help to create "black capitalism." Hubert Humphrey, urging all of that but with greater emphasis on Government aid, has stumped for "black entrepreneurship." He declares that the Negro has a basic right to be an employer as well as an employee...
...letter dated October 13, according to the Times, the group of financiers, led by philanthropist Stewart Rawlings Mott, proposed a meeting with the Vice President. They wrote that the funds would be made available if their group was "turned on" by Humphrey's response to their questions about his "view of the nation's future and what it ought...
Martin H. Peretz, assistant professor of Social Studies, has emphatically denied a report published yesterday in the New York Times, that members of the McCarthy National Finance Committee have conditionally offered to raise up to $4 million for the Humphrey-Muskie campaign...
...realize that you would like to have us become contributors to your campaign," Mott wrote to Humphrey, "but you should not expect an immediate decision from any of us checkbook-in-hand. We will each make our own individual judgments on the basis of how you answer our questions and how you conduct your campaign in the coming weeks...
...prepared response to the report, Peretz disavowed any intentions of supporting the Vice-President. "I cannot even conceive of voting for Mr. Humphrey, and I have argued against any support for Humphrey by peace-minded people...