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When Senator Robert Kennedy and Vice-President Hubert Humphrey disagree, or seem to disagree, on the possibility of Viet Cong participation in a provisional or permanent Vietnamese government, thoughts automatically turn to 1972. Of course, we have been reassured since their recent interchange of statements and press conferences that both men are actually supporting the Administration's policy. But it is the tone and not the substance that counts in this kind of squabble. And the difference in tone was so sharp that one had to view the incident as round one of a fight that will probably...
...image" is hard to say. Humphrey's main problem is no secret: he is simply not so popular as Robert Kennedy. The confidential memorandum, after all, was precipitated by a Gallup Poll which showed that many more Americans would like to see (and could imagine seeing) Robert Kennedy than Hubert Humphrey as President of the United States...
...Humphrey-Kennedy primary battles, with Kennedy likely to come out ahead. Humphrey will inherit all the Administration's unpopularities--a back-breaking burden if the Vietnam war is still going on. Kennedy will have a clear advantage of the already-begun do-se-do maneuvering--Bobby to the left, Hubert to the right. Kennedy can keep making more and more liberal statements and never risk his standing with basically conservative big-city Roman Catholic voters that form the bedrock of his support. Humphrey, on the other hand, can lose the temperamental self-conscious liberal vote all too easily. There...
...ability to name his Vice-President as successor. (After all, even Eisenhower could do that.) But as a lame duck, Lyndon Johnson will find his political capital gravely diminished. He will not be able to play his 1964 trump, for there is no reason whatever to believe that Hubert Humphrey in 1972 will have anything like the popular support...
...Beards. The heaviest barrage of all came from Vice President Hubert Humphrey in New Zealand, who took time out from his Asian tour to liken Kennedy's proposal to "a prescription which includes a dose of arsenic," putting "an arsonist in a fire department," and, for good measure, setting "a fox in a chicken coop...