Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey campaign aide and a factotum for Democratic administrations since the New Deal, said the wording of the crucial paragraphs "must have been changed 300 to 400 times." When he was ready, Humphrey made certain that the vice-presidential seal and flag-emblems of his service to Lyndon Johnson-were nowhere in sight. "I wanted to speak as Hubert H. Humphrey, candidate for President," he explained...
Read literally, the Vice President's pronouncement was at best an insignificant deviation from Johnson's "San Antonio formula" of a year ago or the President's New Orleans speech last month. In both statements, the President emphasized that some reciprocity from Hanoi was necessary before the U.S. could undertake a bombing halt...
...feel good for the first time," Humphrey told reporters aboard his campaign plane. "We're not stepping on so many rocks or in so many holes as we were at first." Nobody was convinced that the Vice President had completely cut his bonds with Johnson. Certainly nobody suggested that he had made anywhere near enough progress to cut appreciably into Nixon's vast lead. But some polls taken by the Democratic National Committee showed that he was making progress, and that may be enough to give Humphrey's campaign a shot of desperately needed confidence...
...Democrats, it has become obvious that, win or lose, they are left with the problem of marking out new constituencies. After nearly 40 years, the coalition assembled by Franklin Roosevelt is in the final throes of disintegration, a process that was slowed down but not halted by Lyndon Johnson's 1964 victory...
...South is a Democratic disaster area, with conservatism the dominant motif. Regardless of his warm reception in North Carolina, Humphrey has lost even some moderate Southern leaders who helped nominate him. The urban machines in the North have been decaying for years, and Johnson has done nothing to reverse that trend. Working-class families grown affluent because of general prosperity are defecting to Nixon and Wallace. Negroes, while generally loyal, are distracted by the anti-Establishment mood of their militant elements and by grief over the loss of their favorite, Robert Kennedy. Some black voters may sit out the election...