Humphrey Hawkins is not, as you might suppose, that amusing clod on Hee Haw, or the star defensive tackle of the Rams, but the short-hand title of an appalling bill before the Congress, sponsored by Senator Hubert Humphrey and Representative Augustus Hawkins (D., Calif.).
By most available indices, Humphrey Hawkins will loom exceeding large in this election year. It is a proposal for national economic planning, dressed up in fancy verbiage about “full employment and balanced growth.” In addition to setting alleged guidelines for reducing unemployment, it creates a cumbersome machinery of federal planning vesting indefinite, potentially sweeping powers in the White House. It has been endorsed, it seems, by every Democratic candidate for President.
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