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...Look! It's Bob Hope!" cried one canal dweller as the aquatic parade set houseboats arocking on a Bangkok klong. Well, almost. On his far-flung tour of the Far East last week, Hubert Horatio Humphrey everywhere displayed his infectious euphoria, dispensed pharmaceutical advice and ad-libbed some passable one-liners. Before leaving South Viet Nam, he was invited by Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu to come back and hunt an elephant some time. "I spend most of my time at home," replied Humphrey, "hunting elephants...
...with President Johnson. After covering the conference, McCulloch and Cook were awakened by a dawn phone call informing them that the editors had decided on the Ky cover. The two correspondents interviewed and wrote during the entire trip back to Saigon; Cook then peeled off to accompany Vice President Hubert Humphrey on his Vietnamese tour...
...Commander Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp Jr. for a ten-minute talk. There he told them that while he could not personally return with them to Viet Nam, he wanted the best man he knew of to help promote rural welfare programs. That man, he said, was Vice President Hubert Humphrey. The Vietnamese were delighted...
...President then took off for his Los Angeles meeting with Hubert Humphrey. When Johnson landed, Humphrey was ushered aboard the plane for an hour-long briefing. Afterward, faithful "Mother"-Johnson's electronic podium with built-in prompter screens- was trundled into a nearby hangar so that the President could read a statement to newsmen. "The road ahead may be long and difficult," he said, "but we shall fight the battle against aggression in Viet Nam; we shall fight the battle for social construction; and throughout the world, we shall fight the battle for peace. And we shall prevail...
...McNamara, hospitalized for a thyroid ailment, was the only absentee- the Administration needed 66 votes to close down Dirksen's filibuster. It remained for Hubert Humphrey, president of the Senate, to announce how far short of the mark the Administration had fallen. "On this vote," boomed Humphrey when the tally was completed, "there are 51 yeas and 48 nays. Two-thirds of the Senators present and voting not having voted in the affirmative, the cloture motion is rejected." Two days later Mansfield tried again; this time the vote was 50 to 49 for cloture. Thus repeal...