Word: speechless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Command Decision." Stunned Democrats were slow to react. For the first time in Washington memory, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey was speechless. California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown soon weighed in with a statement that "the conservatives are in complete charge." Adlai Stevenson lamented that Rocky's decision had left everything to Vice President Nixon: "Whether he is to be the new Nixon or the old Nixon, he remains the same Nixon." Stevenson praised Rockefeller as a "forward-looking liberal." It was clear that as far as the Democrats were concerned, nothing became Rocky's candidacy...