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...never known the Roman triumphs of an easy campaign or an easeful election eve in all his long political life. Considered the favorite in 1960, he lost to John Kennedy and two years later was even rejected for Governor by California voters. Starting far ahead, he let Hubert Humphrey nearly overtake him in 1968, and suffered a setback in the 1970 congressional elections because of an unduly strident campaign. Not much more than a year ago it looked as if he might become the first incumbent President since Herbert Hoover to be turned out of office...
...Capitol. Wisely controlled to minimize any new internal squabbles over procedures or credentials, the gathering was nevertheless a kind of public confessional as speakers talked frankly about the campaign's bad start, its lack of funds and party disunity. "Come home to your party where you belong," pleaded Hubert Humphrey to disaffected Democrats, adding with a touch of personal bitterness: "Richard Nixon is in the White House because too many Democrats didn't come home in 1968." Now some of them seemed to be returning. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley congratulated Shriver, and one of Daley's close...
...ever think you'd live to see Richard Nixon having dinner with Chou En-lai?" asks Lawrence Goldberg, director of the Jewish division of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. "This isn't the Nixon of the '50s. Jews have heard Hubert Humphrey talking about arms reductions for 20 years. But who gets the SALT talks going? Richard Nixon." If Richard Nixon can also win a solid chunk of the Jewish vote, it will be a feat scarcely less audacious-or less significant for American politics-than meeting Chou for dinner...
...fifth target of the week: Muskie. McGovern had been miffed at Muskie since the Democratic Convention, where he thought Muskie had been unduly eager to stop the McGovern drive, even when Muskie was totally out of contention. McGovern could forgive Humphrey, because Hubert had had some chance to win. Otherwise, Muskie might not have been this far down on the list...
...straight. "No," she reportedly said, "it's Bob's turn." Kennedy Aide Ken O'Donnell was even blunter. He sent word to Shriver that if any Kennedy clansman was going to run for Vice President, it would be Bobby, not "half a Kennedy." Four years later Hubert Humphrey wanted Shriver to accompany him on the Democratic ticket but turned instead to Ed Muskie, partly because, as Humphrey puts it, the family made it plain that they had no interest in a Shriver nomination...