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...President's faith in his judgment was the role he played when Lyndon Johnson underwent surgery. During the hours when Johnson's mind was dulled by anesthesia, somebody had to be empowered to decide whether to transfer the office of the presidency to Vice President Hubert Humphrey in case of a crisis. That somebody was Moyers...
...Keep on doing what you're doing to me, because I like what you're doing to me!'" He admitted that he had been disappointed a few times, but allowed: "You never get everything you want." On the other hand, he could not resist adding, "If Hubert and I were up there representing the House and the Senate, we would get them together in five minutes...
...following day, Johnson spent 45 minutes reviewing domestic and foreign problems with Vice President Hubert Humphrey, and a hour with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who brought him a get-well message from the Soviet leaders and a rundown on the crises in Indonesia and Rhodesia (see THE WORLD). Then the postoperative euphoria started wearing off. Taken off sedation, the President slept fitfully, some nights for as little as two hours! He was restless during the day. "While I was there," said Moyers, "he spent part of his time in his chair, and he got back...
Good Living. Hughes has had help from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and New York's Senator Robert Kennedy, who made forays into the state to speak on his behalf. Above all, the Governor was counting on a booming state economy, the blessings of Lyndon Johnson-who won 65.6% of the New Jersey vote in last year's presidential election-and his own well-oiled organization to return him to the statehouse in the Nov. 2 election...
...Robert J. Donovan, in The Future of the Republican Party, projects Democratic occupancy of the White House through 1988, with Johnson's re-election in 1968, followed by two terms for Hubert Humphrey and two for a Kennedy. Such projections are based on a cruel reality confronting the G.O.P. It is the minority party, and it is growing more so all the time. In 1940, with memories of the 'Republican Depression" still harsh in the minds of millions, 38% of U.S. voters still identified themselves as Republicans v. 42% as Democrats. Today, 53% consider themselves Democrats, a beggarly...