Word: humphreyism
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...Reagan in the fall. If he gets the nomination, it will be extremely difficult for him to alter his image sufficiently to prevent a surge of independents to the Republican ticket. Not only would the Democrats' hopes for the Presidency be dashed, but vulnerable right-wing senators like Gordon Humphrey and Jesse Helms could be swept back into office for another six years on such a Republican tide...
...instance, were debated in the days of Herbert Hoover. But the man who got serious about them and acted on them, Franklin Roosevelt, became known as the New Thinker. John Kennedy did not dream up the Peace Corps. He swiped the idea from Congressman Henry Reuss and Senator Hubert Humphrey, who, of course, borrowed it from church dusted-off, replated New Deal...
...vice presidency can be almost anything the President wants it to be. Nixon, who literally "learned" the presidency in eight years under Eisenhower, isolated Spiro Agnew as if he were a bacillus. In at least one White House meeting that I attended, President Johnson allotted the loquacious Hubert Humphrey five minutes in which to speak ("Five minutes, Hubert!"); then Johnson stood by, eyes fixed on the sweep-second hand of his watch, while Humphrey spoke, and when the Vice President went over the limit, pushed him, still talking, out of the room...
WHETHER IT BE Casablanca, Dr. Zhivago, or Gone with the Wind, every classic war picture must feature a love story. Who can forget, for example, the unforgettable moments when Humphrey Bogart passionately sweeps Ingrid Bergman off her feet, or when, after Tara has suffered a crushing defeat. Clark Gable tells Vivien Leigh, "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn." Although each of these films purports primarily to explore the circumstances surrounding its respective war and depict a bygone era, we all secretly know that the political and social statements are secondary to the more central and compelling story...
...massive internal bloodletting. Not that the questions members beat each other over the head with aren't significant. They are, Who is the truer liberal? Who is the most electable in the November run-off? Democrats have rightly had to struggle among themselves to choose between the Humphrey's and the McCarthy's; the Muskie's and the McGovern's the Carter's and the Kennedy...