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...means, not an end, and can become meaningless in the absence of a creative policy-and worthy policymakers. Despite his image as a hardheaded selector of talented men, Nixon chose the mediocre Spiro Agnew as running mate to avoid antagonizing Southern Republicans, while Humphrey picked the better-qualified Edmund Muskie. "Agnew is not a racist," said Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke, last week. Then, in an extraordinary burst of candor, he added: "I hope I'm right. I hope for the good of the country I'm right." Nixon, too, must be hoping for a better show from Agnew...
With strange ambiguity, McCarthy has also endorsed Edmund Muskie for Vice President while leaving out Hubert Humphrey. Since a vote for Muskie is recorded as a vote for Humphrey, McCarthy is either kidding or indirectly supporting Humphrey. In fact, he may yet endorse the Vice President before the election. Numerous Democratic dissidents, including California Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh and Historian Arthur Schlesinger, have already followed that path. Many others, however, are resolutely unreconciled. For the first time since it began endorsing candidates in 1932, The New Republic refused to make any choice. Novelist Mary McCarthy writes bitterly: "Far from being...
...state delegations. At the same time, the Senate meets to name a Vice President. There, the Democrats have retained control, 53 to 47. The rules eliminate the No. 3 candidate: out goes Curtis LeMay, the Wallace running mate. And enough Southern Democrats follow party discipline to elect Edmund Muskie as Vice President. In the House, however, all three presidential candidates are eligible. Southern Democrats, enraged by Humphrey's attacks on Wallace during the bitter campaign, refuse to fall in behind the Minnesotan. Some cross party lines to vote for Nixon, but for days the House remains deadlocked. Thus...
Jogginq Institutions. The sleeper is Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie.* In the western Pennsylvania city of Washington last week, Muskie gave an impressive display of coolness. For three minutes, he stood silently at the microphone in front of the county courthouse as some 40 students from Washington and Jefferson College yelled: "Stop the war! Stop the war!" When one screamed "Say something!" Muskie allowed: "Well, that's not a bad idea. If you will give me the chance, I will try." A student replied: "You have a chance...
Both the guest list and the itinerary symbolized Brown Brothers Harriman's intimate connections with U.S. industry and global finance. There were such business bigwigs as U.S. Steel's Roger Blough, Bethlehem's Edmund Martin, Columbia Broadcasting's William S. Paley, President Orville Beal of Prudential Insurance, and Texaco Chairman Howard Rambin Jr. Among the foreign bankers: Director Otmar Emminger of West Germany's Deutsche Bundesbank, Governor Louis Rasminsky of the Bank of Canada, Vice Chairman Marcus Wallenberg of the powerful Stockholms Enskilda Bank...