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Vice President Hubert Horatio Hum phrey had never before been known to lapse for long into total silence. Yet throughout 1965 he was unwontedly and unhappily subdued in the shadow of a center-stage President. Not until January did Humphrey finally find an effectual and demanding outlet for his energies. It was then, at Lyndon Johnson's behest, that the Vice President publicly helped shoulder the increasing burdens of the war in Viet...
...Kennedy: chairmanship of the Cabinet task force on youth, honorary chairmanship of the advisory council to the Office of Economic Opportunity, responsibility for coordinating civil rights affairs. In addition, Humphrey inherited the chairmanship of the Space and Peace Corps councils and membership on the National Security Council. "If Hubert had to take over the Government to night," says a White House hand, "there would not be one slip because of lack of information on Humphrey's part. He is in on literally everything...
...from reflecting political expediency, Humphrey's views on Viet Nam are a distillation of his oldest and most deeply held convictions. He learned to be an internationalist and social reformer from his father, a small-town South Dakota pharmacist who was bankrupted by the Depression. Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first...
...standing in public-opinion surveys, he has an answer: "Harry Truman was a great President, but I never noted his mystique. I did observe he had a lot of character. What is important are your convictions, character and commitments." Already, in the hyperactive second phase of his vice-presidency, Hubert Humphrey has clearly shown his own credentials...
When Paris Designer Hubert de Givenchy outfitted his models with wigs in 1958, he thought of them merely as gimmicks. To American women the gimmick rapidly became a fact of life. According to some estimates, they now spend as much as $100 million a year on hairpieces, and their passion for perukes gave a lift to the wigmaking industry of Italy. Now Italy's wigmakers have run afoul of the Cold War, and they are tearing their hair...