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...chiefly responsible was Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen, who at one point observed: "Someone has to kill Cock Robin, and it might as well be me." Last week, however, Dirksen argued that the Administration had signally failed to ride to Robin's rescue. "Where was Hubert? Where was the President?" he rumbled. Pointing to the Democrats' 67-33 margin in the Senate, he added: "Had the Democrats in the Senate truly wished it, the bill would have passed...
...Challenging Keith to a primary fight, he crisscrossed the state, protesting that he was being euchred out of the Statehouse by a young man's ambition. "Let the people decide," he demanded; and last week they did, giving Rolvaag 315,734 votes to Keith's 146,926. Hubert Humphrey, a founding member of D.F.L. who backed Keith after the June conclave, hustled to knit the party together for November, when Rolvaag's Republican opponent will be Attorney Harold Le Vander, a political neophyte who has never run for statewide office before...
...another story. Historically, the vice-presidency has by no means been a foolproof route to the White House. This has been so because mediocre men have often been chosen for the job-a description that scarcely fits Hubert Humphrey. The fact remains that only three Veeps in U.S. history have ascended to the presidency via the ballot (John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Martin Van Buren); initially, at least, all the others who reached the White House, from John Tyler to Lyndon Johnson, were elevated by the death of a President...
Efforts are being made to paper over the feud-at least until November. "There's plenty of room for popular people in the Democratic Party," Humphrey says bravely. At New York's Democratic Convention in Buffalo, Hubert and Bobby were all smiles when they met, and the Vice President gamely noted that Kennedy would be campaigning in Minnesota this weekend under a sort of "cultural exchange" program...
Unreliable Fate. By 1972, when Hubert Humphrey will be 61 and Bobby Kennedy 46, one in every three U.S. voters will be under 35. That is the group that Kennedy is aiming at-and few politicians have been as skillful as the Kennedys in tailoring their images to the times. In a study...