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...Henry, a druggist in Clarksdale, Miss., has had a leading role in the Mississippi civil rights movement from its beginning. In a mock election conducted by the Freedom Democratic Party two weeks ago, he ran against Senator John Stennis (D-Miss.) and received some 63,000 votes, mostly from disenfranchised Mississippi Negroes...
Mandatory Days. At his lakeside ranch house, Humphrey changed into sports clothes, whiled away the after noon talking to Minnesota friends by phone. Later, he and Muriel returned to Minneapolis, went to a Sheraton-Ritz Hotel suite to listen to returns. There the South Dakota druggist's son who had always wanted to be President, or at the very least Vice President, told a crowd of well-wishers: "I would be less than honest if I didn't say I am very happy and quite excited...
There, the son of a South Dakota druggist toured the university school of pharmacy, donned a white pharmacist's jacket to pose for pictures, and scrawled on a prescription pad thrust into his hand by an autograph-hunting student the words "Vote Democratic...
...splendid example of opportunity well grasped. Early in the week, he released a financial report that showed him to be worth $171,396. That left him a poor fourth behind the other candidates, but it still was a comfortable sum for the son of a Depression-plagued druggist. Apart from houses worth $36,000 in Chevy Chase, Md., and $28,000 in Waverly, Minn., and assorted Government and corporate securities worth $86,302, Hubert listed $6,215 in a checking account, $1,026 in two savings accounts, $3,900 invested in his father's Huron, S. Dak., pharmacy...
Onward & Downward. But mere Senate stature has never been enough for Hubert Humphrey. The druggist's son has always wanted to be President, or, failing that, at least Vice President of the U.S. In 1956 he thought he had been promised the vice-presidential nomination by Adlai Stevenson. Instead, Adlai declared that nomination wide open, told the delegates in Chicago to make up their own minds. Caught unprepared, Humphrey got lost in the sudden struggle between Estes Kefauver and John F. Kennedy. But he kept up his own forlorn fight, buttonholing whoever would listen, shaking hands until the last...