Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...national results also included several names left out of the Harvard totals. Hubert Humphrey, Lester Maddox, John Mitchell, and J. Edgar Hoover all made the national...
...South as the party of the rich. Furthermore, none of those Democrats who now hold committee chairmanships are willing to risk them by switching, as did South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Nor need they. South Carolina Democrat L. Mendel Rivers privately favored Independent George Wallace over Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Instead of bolting, he let his constituents know exactly where he stood by keeping his silence-thus keeping his Armed Services Committee chairmanship as well...
...apocalypse in Chicago is presented in the same low-keyed manner. Wisely avoiding what could only have been a replay of Medium Cool, de Antonio concentrates his camera completely on what went on inside the amphitheater. The film ends as Hubert Humphrey accepts his nomination in grateful praise to his president. Nothing more has to be said...
Most of the nation's leading public figures have been on hand at least once. Among them: Hubert Humphrey, George Wallace, George McGovern, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Moynihan, Walter Reuther, Sam Yorty and John Lindsay. John Ehrlichman, paying his third visit last week, generated plenty of copy, including a Page One lead in the Washington Evening Star: "President Nixon's chief adviser on domestic affairs hinted today that the White House is considering seeking a ban on handguns in the District of Columbia." Peter Lisagor of the Chicago Daily News noted in his story that "Ehrlichman provided a rare...
Most breakfasts produce at least ideas and occasionally major stories. HUD Secretary George Romney laid his housing program, Operation Breakthrough, on the Sperling table. Equally memorable are the breakfasts at which Spiro Agnew said Humphrey was soft on Communism and Bobby Kennedy agonized over whether to seek the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination...