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...Garment Workers' Union, Communications Workers President Joseph Beirne, Berkeley Political Scientist Paul Seabury, and Leon H. Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Representative Henry Gonzalez, a Texas liberal and Johnson ally, also quit. Everyone expected a hasty and embarrassed resignation from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, one of the founders of the A.D.A. in 1947, but his aides passed the word that Humphrey had quietly allowed his membership to lapse three years...
...consultant to President Johnson, announced his resignation from ADA after the meeting, and some labor union representatives also were reportedly threatening to resign. Galbraith said that he hoped the union would stay. There are at present eight unions affiliated with ADA, which was founded in 1948 by then Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D.-Minn.) and other liberals and labor leaders...
Johnson has no intention of campaigning in New Hampshire, but, as Boutin says with sublime understatement, he "is interested and is keeping posted." Johnson is also keeping posted on the November campaign, has assigned Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Democratic National Chairman John Bailey to key positions...
Increasingly, "crime in the streets"-an omnibus label encompassing all the wellsprings of urban unrest from ghetto riots to muggings in middle-class neighborhoods-looms, with the possible exception of Viet Nam, as the nation's prime preoccupation in Election Year 1968. Predicted Vice President Hubert Humphrey: "Safe streets will be the No. 1 domestic issue, overshadowing taxes, inflation and all the rest." Added a Humphrey aide: "Another summer of riots could really sink us next fall...
...close family ties. They are hospitable to foreigners; outside the capital of Accra, billboards that once proclaimed "Down with Neo-Colonialism" now read "Ghana Welcomes Foreign Investment." One sure sign that Ghana is a different place these days was the friendly visit there last week by Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the first top U.S. official to visit Ghana since Richard Nixon went to its independence celebrations...