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Earlier in the week, Johnson had seemed to be bouncing back. He more than rose to the occasion at a White House banquet honoring Vice President Hubert Humphrey (see following story], House Speaker John McCormack and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The guest list was impressive. All the Justices of the Supreme Court and most of the members of the Johnson Cabinet were there. The leaders of Congress were well represented. So was the newspaper-publishing industry-the Otis Chandlers of Los Angeles, the Palmer Hoyts of Denver, the Arthur Sulzbergers of New York. Top Washington Lawyers (and sometime Johnson advisers...
...friend saw Vice President Hubert Humphrey hurrying across the White House grounds. "Yes, Virginia," he cried with a whoop of laughter. "There is a Vice President." Hubert stopped as if he had been struck by lightning, finally managed a weak grin and hurried...
More particularly, why had Johnson left Vice President Hubert Humphrey off the delegation? Fulfilling ceremonial functions in place of the President has become almost a prerogative of vice presidents. Was Lyndon deliberately trying to keep Humphrey out of the limelight? Or, as seems more likely, was he genuinely concerned about the Vice President's being out of the country at a time when the President himself...
Greeting a lady acquaintance in Tucson, Hubert Horatio Humphrey, 53, leaned to kiss her, and she drew back startled. "Don't worry," he joked. "I'm not the one with the cold." He was almost the only one without it. Texas Congressman Wright Potman, 71, announced proudly from Bethesda Naval Hospital that he had a cold "just like the President's." Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 62, checked into Walter Reed Army Hospital with laryngitis, followed by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, 48, with a "respiratory infection." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, 47, and New York...
...public servant, so faithful a husband and devoted a father, so witty, learned, and profound an orator, writer, and thinker, so genial a friend, prayerful a Christian, and enlightened a statesman-he is better off in Heaven, where, according to an electoral oration in Ohio by Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, we may now confidently assume...