Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans for Democratic Action, which had been one of the earliest and most enthusiastic backers of Senator Eugene McCarthy's bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination, endorsed Vice-President Humphrey Saturday as the "best candidate" for the Presidency...
Meeting in Washington, the A.D.A. national board--headed by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics--endorsed Humphrey by a 71-16 vote, but urged him to make a "forthright call for an unconditional cessation of the bombing" of North Vietnam...
...York Times, which yesterday endorsed Humphrey, reported that Galbraith had spoken in support of the ADA endorsement. Galbraith, who had seconded McCarthy's nomination at the Democratic convention in Chicago, was unavailable for comment...
...urge Humphrey to build on his anti-bombing statement of last Monday night," the ADA statement said, "with a forthright call for an unconditional cessation of the bombing here...
...Humphrey is no little...