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...press conference that he does not intend to undertake "partisan activities." If that is true, Humphrey may have reason to be grateful in the light of Johnson's plunge to a new low in the Gallup ratings (35% approval, 52% disapproval). Of course, a President can still hit the campaign trail and call it "governmental" rather than partisan activity if he so chooses. Aside from Texas, however, there are few places where the President is likely to be more an asset than a detriment to Humphrey -and even Texas could turn out to be G.O.P. territory...
...Muskie described it, Humphrey will hit "the big spots" during the campaign and he will "fill in the other territory." Said the former Governor, a Polish Catholic who nonetheless has the craggy, crinkly features of a down-Easter: "They say that because of my ethnic background I'm supposed to do well in the cities. However, it seems to me that because of my appearance I might expect to do very well in the rural areas...
Humphrey can only keep his fingers crossed that Muskie does well in both places, for he needs all the help he can get. His strategists do not expect his campaign to hit its stride until early October. They hope that he will hit a well-timed peak just before Nov. 5, and that Nixon will start to sag by then. All the same, there is some question whether this would leave him enough time to shake off the L.B.J. collar and do some persuasive barking...
Talking Wildly. Until that outburst, which made even the "old Nixon" sound moderate, Agnew had been a model of circumspection. Painstakingly coached by expert Nixon aides, he showed careful, frequently thoughtful preparation in his formal speeches. Speaking on his own, though, he hit an entirely different tone. Besides talking wildly of the Communist menace, he argued against "appeasement of militant minorities in the ghettos." Entering the Fortas controversy for the first time, he took the remarkable line that Earl Warren, "a very competent Chief Justice," was responsible for the whole fuss. By retiring "precipitately," Agnew said, Warren...
...basic precaution; yet the Coast Guard reports that an astonishing number of boaters pay it no heed. One day last fall, the forecast for Lake Michigan called for squalls and 40-m.p.h. winds. Nevertheless, hundreds of fishermen set out in search of coho salmon. When the storm hit, the Coast Guard did all the fishing, hauled 300 anglers and seven dead bodies from the water...