Word: humphreyism
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...late Hubert Humphrey used to love to tell the story of the men from the Department of Agriculture in Washington who came to rescue his baked, broke and forgotten prairie town of Doland, S. Dak., in the midst of drought and Depression. Those fellows were white knights to Humphrey, they were missionaries, they were the reason Humphrey put so much faith in Big Government. Yet even H.H.H. before his death sometimes despaired at the way insensitive bureaucrats had forgotten that they existed to serve, not to threaten...
Nelson Rockefeller and Hubert Humphrey, were they here today, might be nonplused at seeing their old nemesis Reagan carrying this banner, though the chances are they would enlist. It was not really a political affair about which Reagan talked on his Inaugural Day. It was, rather, about the circulatory system of liberty, with Government as the heart that nourishes and protects the body by both its actions and its self-restraints. Regenerating sympathetic and helpful Government and spreading public understanding of the partnership may be the essence of the American renewal that is the task Reagan has set for himself...
...losers. Yet, there was the feeling that Carter had been a better President after defeat than before, that his actions in the transition were more graceful and selfless than when he worried so much about political survival. Perhaps Carter, too, heard voices from the past, like that of Muriel Humphrey in her last days as wife of the Vice President. Standing in the White House foyer beside her husband, who had been denied the presidency, she listened to a trumpet fanfare, and with a melancholy twinkle she leaned over and whispered, "Damn...
DIED. Raoul Walsh, 93, prolific movie director who won acclaim for such silent film classics as What Price Glory? and Sadie Thompson before mastering the high-adventure thriller (They Drive by Night, High Sierra) that helped establish the tough-guy images of Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and George Raft; of a heart attack; in Simi Valley, Calif...
...breath, Mayes would start talking. By the time he had finished, their names were often affixed to contracts. F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of his authors; so were Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, J.D. Salinger, Katherine Anne Porter, Herman Wouk, Agatha Christie, Art Linkletter, Clare Boothe Luce, Ogden Nash, Hubert Humphrey, Jacqueline Kennedy, Lucille Ball and Maurice Chevalier, and most of them are worth a story or two. Mayes treated them with amused kindness, helped them through personal crises and paid them well, even for that golden age of magazines: $10,000 per short story for Somerset Maugham; a Ford station...