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Dour, brusque, blunt to the point of rudeness, Humphrey's private diagnostician is not easy to know or to like. Yet despite the suspicions he arouses as a result of his intimacy with the Democratic candidate, he is probably the most salutary influence within Humphrey's inner circle. "I have no ax to grind," says Berman. "I'm not after a damn thing. I have no intention of trying to become Surgeon General, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, or anything like that. That's why I can talk to the Vice President...
Compromise. David proselytizes at campaign rallies where he and Julie appear, but he has learned to speak briefly. "Julie gives me advice," he says, and in fact she can sometimes be blunt. "If she doesn't like the emphasis of the speech," David smiles, "she'll say so. Usually, I'm stunned for a little while, then I'll come around and we work out a compromise...
...conservative reaction to racial tension, crime, high taxes and the anti-poverty program. "I won't pander to it," he declares. "We're not going to out-Nixon Nixon, and we're not going to out-Wallace Wallace. We're going to say it like it is." To blunt Nixon's attacks on the crime issue, Humphrey argues that police and the courts must receive more material assistance in doing their jobs. He also argues that the problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction rates. He likens Nixon to Al Capp's cartoon cop, Fearless Fosdick, accusing...
Traditional Role. Richard Nixon's strategists had assigned Agnew the traditional aggressive role of the running mate, but they scarcely anticipated such thrusts. "I am more blunt than Mr. Nixon," the Governor explained. "I can't change. I'm that way." Agnew's way may, in fact, prove a political boon to the G.O.P. After his attack oh Humphrey, the initial speculation was that he had damaged the Republican cause. That feeling eventually gave way to another. In 1968, a year when a strongly conservative mood has gripped many voters (see box, page 22), such a note of toughness...
Capricious Execution. Besides money, Huie makes use of a fierce persistence and an equally intense passion for the underdog. He is an aggressive, blunt-spoken reporter who makes it clear that no one is going to put anything over on him. When he does business with the sordid characters who sell him stories, he tells them: "One damn lie and the whole deal is off." And few facts in Huie's exposes have ever been disproved...