Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last two weeks of September, "the social issue dominated the campaign," Nixon said. "Then the Democrats read Scammon and Wattenberg [whose book, The Real Majority, argued that Republicans have understood Americans' desires and fears about law-and-order better than the Democrats], and then Hubert Humphrey wrapped himself in the flag and took off on a fire truck." The Democrats, he said, turned to the economic issue: "This was our low point." That was what sent him off to the hustings. (He called the Democrats' subsequent use of unemployment statistics "a lie.") His staff advised against campaigning...
...Humphrey Doermann, assistant to the dean of the Faculty for Financial Affairs, said, yesterday Dean Dunlop has accounted for Peterson's minimum requirements-based on the lowest tuition increase figure-in his projected unrestricted budget for 1971-72. But that budget has a projected deficit of $1.5 million, a figure Dunlop has called "unacceptable." Dunlop and other administrators have been trying desperately to find places other than scholarships to make cuts...
...three prime contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hubert H. Humphrey, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie-all won seats in the Senate with comfortable ease...
...Gilligan, a liberal Democrat, is expected to win easily despite Cloud's needling of him as "Tax-a-billion Gilligan." So heavily do the Republican scandals weigh on Ohio political scales this year that Democrats have a clear shot at control of a vital state. PENNSYLVANIA. Hubert Humphrey could explain the impossibility of shucking identity with an unpopular Administration. An ardent listener would be Lieutenant Governor Raymond J. Broderick of Pennsylvania, who is striving to move up a notch and to dissociate himself from unpopular Governor Raymond P. Shafer in the process. Republican Shafer will leave the state...
...Lynda Bird's boy friend, Actor George Hamilton: "Part of the wine of life, exciting and heady." On the surprises in L.B.J.'s bedroom: "I walked in this morning for coffee, and who should be sitting there but Richard Nixon." L.B.J., musing about Vice President Hubert Humphrey: "If I could just breed him to Calvin Coolidge...