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...pollsters predicted that John Kennedy would win nine of the state's ten Congressional districts from Hubert Humphrey. The Massachusetts Senator carried only six districts, however, with a scant 56 per cent of the popular vote...
...right-thinking people in this country." Richard Nixon and others zeroed in on the commission's failure to place heavy blame on the rioters themselves. "I think," said Nixon, "the commission has put undue emphasis on the idea that we are in effect a racist society." Vice President Hubert Humphrey also had some doubts about the commission's conclusion that the U.S. was moving toward a form of apartheid. "It may be true, although it is open to some challenge," he said. "If it becomes a nightmare reality, it will be because our free society failed." Said...
...Minnesota senior Senator took the three Minneapolis-St. Paul district with 60 to 70 per cent of the vote. Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey has always been strong in his home area, and Tuesday's results are regarded by many observers as a strong rebuff. Four members of his own family, including his own son and daughter, were defeated in the voting for district delegates in the McCarthy landslide...
...uppermost levels of the Administration and the Pentagon, where optimism has been endemic from the war's earliest days, officials were still trying to find something comforting in the recent Communist Tet offensive despite all of the evidence to the contrary. Vice President Hubert Humphrey declared that the Saigon regime "if anything has been strengthened by the attack," and on TV the U.S. Ambassador to Saigon, Ellsworth Bunker, in effect agreed. Despite some qualifications made by both men, such statements sounded absurd (see THE WORLD...
...greater concern to Gaud and the Administration were charges of malfeasance against AID personnel that indirectly touched several longtime associates of Vice President Hubert Humphrey's. Herbert J. Waters, 55, director of AID'S "war on hunger," resigned recently at Gaud's direct request, after three men under Waters' jurisdiction were implicated in a $250,000 flim-flam with a Belgian firm that AID paid for work never done. Waters managed Humphrey's senatorial campaigns in 1954 and 1960, was the Minnesota Senator's administrative assistant until he was appointed...