Word: supportively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over." McCarthy's celebrity corner is largely in despair. Actor Walter Matthau calls the Humphrey-Nixon face-off "a choice between strychnine and arsenic." Paul Newman, one of McCarthy's busiest advocates at the convention, promises "a month of serious drinking" before he decides whether to support Humphrey actively, though he has already decided at least to cast his ballot for him. Only Steve Allen among McCarthy's Hollywood supporters has thus far lent his name to the Humphrey campaign...
...H.H.H. are more frequently the political pros who value party allegiance. Some are in races in which party unity is important. Thus Oregon's Wayne Morse has solidly endorsed Humphrey. Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes, who nominated McCarthy for President, is not even anxious to have McCarthy support his own senatorial campaign-until and unless the Minnesotan also supports the national ticket, as Hughes does...
Numerous dissidents are putting pressure on Humphrey to modify his views in exchange for their support. Michigan McCarthyites returned home from Chicago and in a subsequent state Democratic convention pushed through a Viet Nam statement approximating the national convention's rejected minority plank. Thus armed, they may now offer to back Humphrey in exchange for a permanent role in the Michigan party structure...
Virtually every liberal Democratic organization not already for Humphrey may ask some price for its support. The Americans for Democratic Action will meet this week to decide whether to endorse Hubert, and John Kenneth Galbraith boasts: "Only our people can elect him." But, he insists, "we aren't going to endorse the war. We aren't going to endorse the old foreign-policy priesthood that got us into this mess, and we aren't going to endorse the right of the Chicago police to beat up the youngsters who work for us. So everything depends on whether...
Forty-one days after they are named, the electors meet in their state capitols to choose the President. Legally, they are free to select whomever they please, although custom and party discipline usually bind them to the nominee they have pledged to support. If no candidate wins a clear majority of the electors' 538 votes, the contest moves to the House of Representatives, where, in theory, the 26 smallest states, with 17% of the U.S. population, could impose on the nation a President of their own choosing...