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Pulverized Prestige. Stunned by the G.O.P. showing, the Democrats reacted with initial incredulity. "I imagine it's a sort of standoff," said Democratic National Chairman John Bailey. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, his coattails shredded and his prestige pulverized by a near-total G.O.P. sweep in his home state of Minnesota, was more candid. "Misery loves company," he said...
...G.O.P. congressional candidates (average age: 47.3) were mostly younger than their Democratic counterparts (49.6)?and they acted younger. While Soapy Williams reminisced about the New Deal in Michigan, Griffin cut rock-'n'-roll records for teenagers. In Illinois, Hubert Humphrey inadvertently underscored the generational gap between the Democratic and Republican styles in the senatorial campaign when he said, "The Senate without Paul Douglas would be like show business without Jimmy Durante"?who, at 73, now uses Old Man Time as a theme song. To the delight of Republican audiences in Wilkes-Barre and Philadelphia, outgoing Pennsylvania Governor William...
...eliminated any last-minute presidential pyrotechnics in a campaign that was remarkably short of fireworks. Nixon, who stumped for nearly 100 Republicans in 32 states, drummed away at the President's Viet Nam policy and his "rubber stamp" Congress, but neither pitch particularly roused his audiences. Vice President Hubert Humphrey encountered such apathy everywhere he went that he finally blurted to a listless Manhattan audience: "Get with it, will you? I'm going to get you some Geritol." At a traditional "bean feed" rally in St. Paul's 12,000-seat auditorium, Hubert managed to draw only...
...Scott Fitzgerald or Vice President Hubert Humphrey...
...Paul Douglas is in trouble," thundered Hubert Humphrey at a Democratic rally in Chicago last week, "then George Washington was in trouble at Yorktown." That intelligence could bring Cornwallis back from the grave...