Word: humphreyism
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...remember the '64 convention," said Frances Humphrey Howard, who worked with Eleanor Roosevelt during the war. "Women were told to scamper. My own brother Hubert was the nominee, and I was told to get lost. Today a great partnership is occurring." Jane McMichael, legislative director for the American Federation of Government Employees, was the staff director of the National Women's Political Caucus during the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami. "Remember our so-called headquarters hotel? The cockroaches were big enough to steal the typewriters. I remember crying when Shirley Chisholm was nominated for President...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY: A BIOGRAPHY by Carl Solberg
...shortly after Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. became mayor of Minneapolis, he got a call from his father. Hubert Sr. was shocked: his son had been seen dining with bankers. The small-town druggist delivered a warning against the lures of wealth, power and compromise...
That hardly seemed necessary at the time, or for a decade to come. As mayor and later U.S. Senator, Humphrey fought the good fight for civil rights, full employment and the whole postwar liberal agenda. But as Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, he became a cheerleader for the Viet Nam War, alienating many of his supporters, splitting the Democratic Party and losing his own 1968 presidential run. As Author Carl Solberg sadly but honestly notes, Humphrey had many liabilities: he talked too much, he thought too little, he let Johnson humiliate him. But perhaps his biggest mistake...
...failing was evident back in South Dakota, where Humphrey grew up struggling to save the family pharmacy from the Depression. Despite an early conviction that he belonged in politics, he stayed on to help his father. And stayed. At 26, on the verge of nervous collapse, he finally left to study political science at the University of Minnesota, then to teach the subject at a local college. He put his reformist ideas into practice as an officer of the state's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, but even then he was trimming his sails. The avowed leftist not only dined...