Word: humphreyism
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...worth a pitcher of warm spit." Walter Mondale, conscious of Garner's feelings, insisted in 1976 that Jimmy Carter let him be an "activist" vice president. "Activist" meant he didn't want to be treated like another former vice president and Mondale's political mentor, Hubert Humphrey, who found his way into the Oval Office as often as a lost tourist who had strayed from the morning tour of the White House...
...THAT QUALITY, Mondale was sharply contrasted with his fellow Minnesotan and erst-while mentor, Hubert Humphrey. Mondale entered politics at the grassroots in the sometimes powerful, often self-destructive Democratic Farmer Labor Party (DFL) in Minnesota. It was in the DFL that Mondale first linked up with Humphrey. His awkward, sometimes competitive relationship with the fiery liberal was one of the most complicated aspects of his complicated personality...
...Humphrey and Mondale appealed to the same constituencies, and one wonders if Fritz was appointed to fill a vacancy as Minnesota's Attorney General partly in an effort to get him out of the way. But in 1964, Mondale successfully emerged from state politics when he was appointed to fill the Senate seat that Humphrey vacated when he was sentenced to four-and-a-half years as Johnson...
...Humphrey had a lot of time on his hands to help the freshman senator after the election in late 1964, and Mondale lacked identity independent of Humphrey for several years. As Humphrey's protege, he felt he could not criticize Johnson's war policies, and he later regretted it. For several years, he languished in the Senate as Humphrey's mouth-piece, and didn't find an issue of his own until 1968 when, against the wishes of the Democratic leadership, he put together a remarkable coalition to pass the Open Housing legislation that was essential to the civil rights...
...Secretary of State received a rousing send-off for his maiden diplomatic mission when the Senate, after less than four hours of hearings, confirmed his appointment, 94 to 2. Even the two nays (by Republican Conservatives Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire) were cast not in disapproval of Muskie but as protests against Carter's foreign policy. One Senator followed another in praising Muskie and he, in turn, brought them to their feet with an emotional farewell to the chamber in which he had served for the past 22 years. Said Muskie: "I look...