Word: humphreyism
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Liberals who today are tempted not to vote or to cast a protest vote in hopes of building a challenge to the New Right must remember the lesson of 1968. In that year, many college students disdained to vote for either Hubert H. Humphrey or Richard M. Nixon because they considered both candidates to be neanderthals. Perhaps as a result, Nixon was elected by a margin of 1 per cent of the popular vote. The nation paid a heavy price for the liberals' refusal to vote for whom they considered the lesser of two evils. The same must not happen...
Ireland's Roman Catholic primate, Tomas Cardinal O'Fiaich, has met five times with British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Humphrey Atkins to discuss the issue, but the talks have made little if any progress. The British view concessions as a surrender to I.R.A. demands; the I.R.A. has reinforced that position by killing a score of off-duty prison guards. Yet until the H-block issue is resolved, the I.R.A. has a propaganda point as its terrorists persist in their increasingly lonely and ugly battle against both the British troops and the Ulster police...
...opinion since the first days of Carter's stewardship contending that behind the beatific smile and inside the big heart lurks a nasty impulse, most often contained by success but apt to escape in times of stress and failure. Thus did Carter say unfortunate things publicly about Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Cyrus Vance. But almost always the calm returned, and for the most part Carter appeared to practice the good will that he preached and prayed...
Lucey's pedigree as a Kennedyite is two decades old. He threw his support behind John F. Kennedy in the key 1960 Wisconsin primary fight to defeat Hubert Humphrey. Eight years later, Lucey backed Robert Kennedy. At last month's Democratic Convention, as Carter beat Kennedy, Lucey stalked from the hall in righteous anger...
...think that the public takes that with a lot of salt. They know that we politicians get tired, make mistakes, get angry, just as they do in their own lives. I remember Hubert Humphrey once said that Kennedy had all the substance of a paper doily, and then a week later, Hubert said that [Kennedy's stand on an issue] was the greatest thing in the history of mankind. You know, doilies are important...