Word: humphrey
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...wouldn't see anything wrong with a woman President," Democrat Patsy Mink said after her 1964 election to Congress. Dr. Edgar Berman, Hubert Humphrey's personal physician and confidant, sees plenty wrong with a female Chief Executive. When he said so to the Congresswoman from Hawaii at a meeting of the Democratic Party's Committee on National Priorities, he set Washington abuzz and feminists afire...
...Bugaboo. Mrs. Mink, 42, turned in her fury to Humphrey, who, she assumed, had appointed Berman to the committee (actually, it was Fred Harris, former Democratic National Committee chairman). Demanding Herman's ouster, she called him a "bigot," guilty of "the basest sort of prejudice against women . . . His use of the menstrual cycle and menopause to ridicule women and to caricature all women as neurotic and emotionally unbalanced was as indefensible and astonishing as those who still believe, let alone dare state, that the Negro is physiologically inferior." Betty (The Feminine Mystique) Friedan, former president of the National Organization...
Representative Shirley Chisholm sent her own letter to Humphrey asking for the doctor's resignation. Journalist Gloria Steinem echoed the demand with a petition. Even Dr. Herman's wife got in on the act: when asked about his statements, she replied, "If he really said that, I would disagree with...
...story true? Connally calls it "worse than inaccurate; it's a lie." Among those ready to believe it are many of Humphrey's staff who have long felt that Johnson secretly wanted a Nixon victory so that history would record the Democrats' unpopularity rather than Johnson's. They reason that Connally would not have made the deal without Johnson's knowledge...
Believers could also find support for the story in some things not in Witcover's book. It is known that Connally was outraged at the Democratic Convention when Humphrey agreed to drop the unit rule for delegate voting, a source of power for Connally, and would not even consider the Texan for a running mate. Connally and Allan Shivers, also a former Texas Governor and like Connally a conservative, were planning to go on television shortly before the election to announce their support of Nixon. They changed their minds at about the same time that Connally, according to Witcover...