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...Mexico's 60th President stepped out onto the balcony of the austere National Palace, the sun burst through the overcast, warming the sea of upturned faces below. But the most radiant face of all belonged to Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, the brainy backlands lawyer on whose slim frame outgoing President Adolfo López Mateos draped the green, white and red sash of office. With arms outstretched in triumph and a huge, toothy grin creasing his dark, homely countenance, President Diaz Ordaz looked as if he would like nothing better than to hug the officials clustered around...
Humphrey has suffered other disappointments. He had been tentatively selected as head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration of Mexican President-elect Gustavo Diaz Ordaz this month. But Senator Mike Mansfield complained that, as the President's legislative leader, he needed the assignment to demonstrate his high standing with the Administration. That made sense to Johnson; he canceled Humphrey's appointment and put Mansfield in his place...
...first mention of Diaz Ordaz as the P.R.I, candidate, the Communist weekly Politica printed a grotesque cover photo of him, with the caption: "He will not be President." Though most far-leftists within the P.R.I, are still against him, some who had bitterly opposed Lopez Mateos, have decided to play it cool and support the more conservative Diaz Ordaz...
...Diaz Ordaz' relations with the U.S., Washington regards him as a friend but an independent one-which is just where most other recent Mexican Presidents have stood...
Guided Democracy. Barring accidents or acts of God, the rest is foreordained. Next week Diaz Ordaz will be formally nominated at the party convention; he will then "campaign" for six months, showing himself from the back of an open truck in every important town. In elections next July, against two or three hapless opposition candidates, he will win the presidency with some 80% of the popular vote. On Dec. 1, 1964, he will take office from President López Mateos...