Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Silent Hecklers. Buoyed by the response to his Viet Nam speech-including more than $200,000 in fresh contributions-Humphrey plunged into his first round of genuinely successful campaigning since the convention. Ironically, the Vice President drew his largest and friendliest crowds in the South...
...Charlotte, N.C., the Coliseum was jammed by a crowd of 14,000 including many Negroes and students. In Salt Lake City, Nashville, Knoxville, Jacksonville, Humphrey savored cheers. After the Viet Nam speech, antiwar hecklers stilled their protests for the most part...
...turf that George Wallace considers his own, Humphrey tore into the Alabamian with unmatched savagery-and won applause. "I've been told one hundred and one times this may not be the place [to criticize Wallace], but I think it is," Humphrey told a crowd of 10,000 in Knoxville. "He stands, and he has always stood, as the apostle of the politics of fear and racism," cried the Vice President. "Some of his political managers and even some of his presidential electors are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils, the John...
...many of whom had talked about sitting out the race, seemed to agree. In any event, they were becoming sufficiently alarmed by the Wallace threat to start registering in numbers so that they could vote for the Vice President. "Negroes laughed at the Wallace candidacy," said Field Jukes, a Humphrey aide. "Well, they aren't laughing...
Richard Nixon also ventured into the South last week, but his treatment of Wallace was more restrained than Humphrey's. Wallace, he said, "is against many things Americans are frustrated about; I'm against them too. That goes beyond saying, 'If someone lies down before a limousine I'd run him over.' Anybody who says that shouldn't be President." In fact, he told reporters, no man who talks that way "is even fit to be President." Nixon's crowds were uniformly large, but for the moment, it was Humphrey's campaign...