Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most tragic thing about the presidential campaign is that everything Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace say about Wallace, Nixon and Humphrey is true...
...Thank you for your sympathetic report on Hubert Humphrey. I should like to be counted...
...long after an advance text of Hubert Humphrey's Viet Nam speech reached the White House last week, Lyndon Johnson spent half an hour on the telephone with Richard Nixon. The White House, naturally, did not discuss the conversation, but it is a safe assumption that the Democratic President and the Republican presidential candidate wasted little time talking about wheat sales or the World Series. By the time Humphrey phoned the White House, shortly after delivering the speech, the reaction from Johnson's end of the line was, in the words of an aide to the Vice President...
Washington has long hummed with rumors of a Johnson-Nixon "understanding" on Viet Nam-something along the lines of "don't rock the boat." To be sure, the President has pulled the rug out from under Humphrey every time he has deviated from the Administration's position on the war. Two weeks ago, during a heated meeting of the National Security Council, the President heard Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and then-Ambassador to the United Nations George Ball appeal for greater flexibility. Then Johnson delivered a choleric lecture against any gesture to mollify Hanoi. He argued that...
Johnson's hard line on the war is a problem that has dogged Humphrey. With his televised speech, the Vice President again tried, harder than before, to place some distance between himself and the President. During the week, Humphrey also made his first extended foray into the South, a region whose strong support for Nixon and Alabama's George Wallace has been another major Humphrey headache. It turned out to be the most rousing tour of his disappointing campaign, topping off his most successful week to date...