Word: miller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second, Hubert Humphrey will be Johnson's Vice-President. And whatever charges Representative Miller may make against Humphrey, he can never accuse him of lacking imagination. Moreover, liberal fears to the contrary, the Minnesota Senator will probably exert considerable influence on new policy. Himself only months removed from the Vice-Presidency, Johnson is not about to take a man of unquestioned talent and energy and relegate him, in the words of Everett Dirksen, to "shuffle around the world eating camels' eyes at potentates' tables...
Putting Representative Miller a heart beat from the Presidency is even more unthinkable. Deficient in experience, performance, and ability, Miller is a despicable non-entity, a hack politician whose vicious campaign eminently qualifies him for the discredited obscurity he will find after November...
Robert G. McCloskey, professor of Government, yesterday urged the defeat of all Republican candidates who have not repudiated the Goldwater-Miller ticket...
McCloskey did not mention Republican candidates who have refused to support the Goldwater-Miller ticket, but said that "each voter must decide for himself whether the general presumption against Republicans is, as the lawyers say, rebuttable in an individual case...
Meanwhile, Miller's Democratic counterpart, Hubert Humphrey, was getting even more heated up in the enthusiasms of the campaign. Outside San Jose, Calif., he halted his motorcade in mid-procession to change a wilted shirt for a fresh one. In Sharon, Pa., he lost his wristwatch and cuff links to a mob of squealing girls. At Erie, a contingent of 63 teen-age Demzelles formed a corridor between Hubert's platform and his limousine, begged to be allowed to kiss him. Each got her wish as Hubert beamingly worked his way down the line, allowing all 63 girls...