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...Unifier. Humphrey benefits, of course, from the weakness of the competition. The seven announced candidates -Udall, Henry ("Scoop") Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, Jimmy Carter, Milton Shapp, Terry Sanford and Fred Harris -have not aroused any enthusiasm in an electorate supposedly yearning for a new face. And with Ted Kennedy repeatedly rejecting all talk of a campaign, Humphrey is increasingly seen as a unifier who can keep the factious Democratic Party together. He still maintains loyal support among labor, blacks and farmers. Says a staffer on the national committee: "Any other candidate who depended on support from these groups would find Humphrey...
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With a few due compliments, she yielded the floor to Terry Sanford, a lanky grey-haired Democrat from North Carolina Sanford posed stiffly at the podium. Pushing honesty from his rail splitting brows to his log cabin tweeds. "I would like to quote from Abigail Adams. Do not put unlimited power in the hands of the husbands or we will be prompted to foment revolution. Well I hope that ERA passes. I'm not just offering you empty promises because throughout my political life what I've promised I've always kept. I would like to include in the Democratic...
More than a year before the Democratic National Convention, six men have put themselves in the party's presidential race-and four have Southern drawls. The latest to enter is Terry Sanford, 57, the Duke University president and liberal former North Carolina Governor, who last week set as his goal the stopping of the man whom all liberal and moderate Democrats most fear: George Wallace. Indeed, Sanford is one of those increasingly vocal Southerners who believe that their region has much more, and better, to offer than Wallace's demagogic appeal and implicit racism. As Sanford...
...Sanford was Governor of South Carolina from 1960 to 1965 and has been influential in the Democratic Party. He is now one of about a dese Democratic who say they want to be president...