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...view, common among intellectuals, that academe and the smoke-filled room are incompatible worlds. Until last year, Roche was national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action, an energetic organization that straddles both communities, and he is still an A.D.A. vice chairman. He was a speechwriter for Hubert Humphrey in 1964 and has also served Johnson, most recently on a fact-finding mission to Saigon in June...
...greatest popular landslide in history-helping meanwhile to pull Bobby into the Senate on his coattails-Lyndon Johnson's pockets fairly bulged with favorable polls. Now he travels lighter, for the surveys bear uniformly bad tidings for himself and for Vice President Hubert Humphrey. In Minnesota, in California, in Iowa, in Michigan, Bobby is outpolling the President by margins as large as 2 to 1, and the Vice President by even more. When
...Missouri Weekly polled the state's Bootheel section, Kennedy wound up with 72%, Lyndon 26%, Hubert 2%-though only a few years ago, in the newspaper's words, Bobby was "perhaps the most disliked American in the Bootheel, outside of the FBI's ten most wanted criminals...
Progeny of the official presidential family were converging on the altar at such a great rate that L.B.J. threw a White House dinner for the whole brood: Veep Hubert Humphrey's son Robert, 22, and Fiancee Donna Erickson, 21; Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara's daughter Margaret, 24, and Fiance Barry Carter, 24; and Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz's son Richard, 27, and Fiancee Margaret Ann Hickman. Before the week was out, Bob Humphrey, a senior at Minnesota's Mankato State College, and Donna, a former Miss Hastings, Minn., proceeded to the next step. Amid pealing...
...greatest service that Lyndon Johnson is performing for the people of this country is the fact that his sitting in the President's chair keeps Hubert Humphrey...