Word: humphreyism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Law and Graduate School Young Democrats endorsed Hubert H. Humphrey for President Thursday night by a 17-10 vote...
Stating that, "the Presidential election is too important to sit out," the resolution warned against the possible election of Richard M. Nixon, "a man who has never demonstrated sensitivity for the concerns we share," and praised Humphrey's tireless efforts for "positive and creative change...
Lest the public be deceived by the Vice-President's verbal gymnastics, I submit the astute commentary on Humphrey expressed by that most perceptive judge of character and analyst of political strategem, William Shakespeare. His warning against Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester is remarkably cogent...
...Democrats, Billy has seldom seen Hubert Humphrey since their first unlikely meeting in 1945 when "we were both swimming nude at the Y.M.C.A. in Minneapolis." Humphrey was running for mayor and, Graham recalls, joked that "I want you to vote for me some day." It may not be this year. "I haven't even told my wife," says Billy. "I'm sure she suspects whom I'd vote for, but I haven't told...
...blow-ups of printed pages as backdrops, and it employed at least one familiar example of magazine terminology: the "cover story." On the whole, the opening show amounted to a good cub reporter's try. Sound cameras caught some revealing glimpses and comments of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey as they sat self-consciously before their TV screens during the G.O.P. and Democratic Convention balloting. Reasoner's partner, Mike Wallace, interviewed Attorney General Ramsey Clark for the cover story, "Cops." An overseas segment picked up some pointed remarks on U.S. politics from, among others, British Satirist Malcolm Muggeridge...