Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week began with a slapstick squabble over a bill to waive the requirement that radio and television grant equal time to all candidates. The waiver would have cleared the way for presidential debates among the major candidates-something that Hubert Humphrey wants and Richard Nixon, as the man with a big lead to preserve, does not. In their maneuvering over the bill the Democrats staged a lock-in in the House, and the Republicans held a sit-out in the Senate. When House Republicans conducted a 27-hour filibuster by insisting on time-consuming roll calls (45 of them, each...
...university representative that inflame racial and religious passions? To New York University President James M. Hester, the answer seems to be no. Last week he fired a Negro militant who had claimed that "antiblack Jews" dominated the New York City public schools, and charged that Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey were "racist bastards...
...With only three weeks left in the presidential campaign, the clear choice of the editorial pages is Richard Nixon. Not that the switch has been entirely wholehearted; the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for one, admitted that the decision was hardly "easy." But, said the paper, it had become disenchanted with Humphrey as a "man of the old order. He is campaigning on the past. Richard Nixon is the only candidate in a position to take a new course...
...chain, "including the miserable war in Viet Nam, we need a President who can keep cool, who can make a decision and carry it out, who knows when to hold his tongue and when to use it. Richard Nixon's experience and conduct clearly show these abilities. Hubert Humphrey, especially in this campaign, has created strong doubt that he has comparable abilities...
...Humphrey's endorsements, none was rendered with more enthusiasm than the New York Times's. "Looked at in the perspective of his 23 years in public life," declared the Times, "Hubert Humphrey is a humanitarian, an authentic and effective liberal who can be depended upon to lead the nation in ways of peace." And Humphrey is the choice of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which lauds his "courage to speak up for one America." The Atlanta Constitution, Arkansas Gazette, Denver Post and Nashville Tennessean have also urged Humphrey's election and the traditionally Democratic papers of Louisville...