Word: humphreyism
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...drive for a true change in the role of the nominating convention began after the Democratic disaster in Chicago in 1968, at which the wheel-horses of the local political organizations chose Hubert Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy, to the accompaniment of street rioting...
...many Democrats that year opposed the war in Viet Nam so strongly that incumbent Lyndon Johnson chose not to seek reelection, and although the convention dutifully picked Johnson's Vice President, Humphrey lost the election at least partly because of the discontent that the convention left behind...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher looked on pensively as her Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Humphrey Atkins, presented the long-awaited document to the House of Commons. The 16-page paper outlined an ambitious government plan for restoring self-government to Ulster after roughly eight years of direct rule by Westminster and a decade of sectarian violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives. Atkins guardedly insisted that the Thatcher government's initiative contained "grounds for some optimism. I detect that the leaders of the political parties really do want to find a way forward...
...events of Hubert Humphrey's life that drew him toward politics and Washington occurred in 1936 when some Department of Agriculture experts showed up at Doland, S. Dak., to plant scraggly pine trees that were to be part of a shelter belt from Canada to the Gulf, designed to slow down the remorseless prairie wind. As Hubert used to recall, the trees quickly died in the 100° heat but the act showed "that somebody back there cared...
...kind of event. A hall packed with politicians, Democrats for the most part, of course. Near nonstop oratory from 35 speakers. His beloved Muriel caught in the glow of spotlights and spontaneous affection. But Hubert H. Humphrey is gone: the Worcester, Mass., tribute last week was a New England scholarship fund raiser for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the late Vice President's alma mater, the University of Minnesota. Among the battery of speakers was a particularly close friend from Senate days who had shared the ticket in Humphrey's 1968 presidential race. Embracing...