Word: warmest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact that no one in the party is the accepted leader or an effective drawing card. Nor was there anything encouraging for 1972 to be drawn from certain popularity indicators; as Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and Edward Kennedy were introduced, it was Humphrey, the defeated candidate, who drew the warmest applause. Former President Lyndon Johnson was honorary chairman of the dinner but did not even attend, and his name was mentioned only once. That was when the put-down comic Don Rickles called Johnson "a great man-I've used his baby powder...