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...Riots, wars, inflation, campus radicals-the average American voter clutches his checkbook and longs for the quiet, ho-hum days of pre-Viet Nam. And lo and behold! Who should appear but handy, wholesome, ho-hum Hubert...
...What an abysmally dirty trick you played on Hubert Humphrey by putting that ugly and utterly nontypical picture of him on your cover! The text portrays his real, essential characteristics of buoyancy, optimism, kindness, idealism, sunny nature; while in the cover picture he appears cynical, suspicious, pessimistic, ill-natured, hard-bitten-the very opposite of his actual character...
...Hubert Humphrey: We're about where we were...
Survival Power. The victory was worth every dollar to Kennedy. It was his first real test as a candidate this year, and a loss might well have crippled him. The win would have been sweeter, of course, had it been against his prime opponent, Hubert Humphrey, but Humphrey's name will be on no presidential primary ballots this year. On the same day that Kennedy carried Indiana, however, a Kennedy slate of delegates defeated pro-Humphrey candidates with surprising ease in the District of Columbia primary-a contest that Humphrey, with better organizational work, might have won. Kennedy will...
...reserved his ammunition for the Democrats. In a rather leisurely two-day stint in Nebraska, where in this week's primary he faced opposition from Ronald Reagan (who was on the ballot) and Rockefeller (who was not). Nixon aimed a P-Shooter at Eugene McCarthy, Robert Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey: "three peas in a pod, prisoners of the policies of the past." And in a 6,000-word formal statement, he attacked the Johnson Administration for failing to reverse the rising crime rate. Nixon proposed a broad program aimed at both organized crime and what he called "street crime...