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Most of the liberal luminaries in the Senate have been reluctant to take strong and effective stands against the war. Senator Muskie endorsed the Johnson war strategy by running on the 1968 Democratic ticket with Hubert Humphrey. Senator Kennedy, embroiled in his own personal and political problems, has been cautious in his criticism until very recently. Senator Fulbright, a lonely and powerful figure, has too often let his towering ego conflict with his political duty...
...friendly banter, even though Javits had just challenged Buckley's right to join the Republican caucus. After he was sworn in, California Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned the man who beat him, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd, to take over his front-row desk. Byrd...
Hence McGovern hopes-presuming the continued presidential reticence of Edward Kennedy-to appear as the political heir to Robert Kennedy. By seeking the same constituency that Kennedy did in 1968. McGovern. by implication at least, will be trying to shove Muskie into the old-politics ditch of Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson...
Scared to Death. Within hours of the election, party paladins from both sides were beating a path to Palmer's door. D.F.L. Governor-elect Wendell Anderson flew to Duluth to offer his congratulations and brotherly advice. Outgoing G.O.P. Governor Harold LeVander was right behind him. Hubert Humphrey checked in with a phone call, as did a host of other D.F.L. members. The G.O.P. countered by flying Palmer to St. Paul for a meeting with the party's top legislators. It was all very flattering, but dismaying...
...Nixon team since 1968; he moved into the White House with the President. He started as assistant to John Ehrlichman, is now an aide to Bob Haldeman. When Pat Nixon fired her first press secretary, Gerry Van der Heuvel (who, among other things, had wanted to work for Hubert Humphrey), there was Connie, with recommendations from two of Nixon's closest...