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Says Pragmatist Bliss: "If the Democratic Party is big enough for Harry Byrd and Hubert Humphrey, then the Republican Party is big enough for Jack Javits and Barry Goldwater." Which does not alter the fact that, for all of Bliss's avoidance of ideology, the party will need ideas-and obviously they will have to come from the Javits forces rather than the Goldwater side. In fact, New York's Senator Javits last week suggested that the National Committee "set in motion the machinery to call a national conclave to replace" the current Republican platform, because "we will...
Enhancing Politics. In the 1960 presidential primary fight, Neustadt backed Hubert Humphrey until Humphrey's defeat in West Virginia, then switched to another loser, Lyndon B. Johnson. It was only in September 1960 that he joined the Kennedy team, outlining in a memorandum the matters to which a President-elect should attend between November and inauguration. Fascinated with the mystique of power, Kennedy had read Neustadt's book and told newsmen how impressed he was. This was a mistake, says Neustadt. A President should never admit that others are telling him how to run the presidency-it damages...
...Senate, too, the Democrats staged a relatively minor North-South clash. Louisiana's Russell Long, 46, wanted to replace Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey as majority whip-even though Huey Long's son has a notable record of anti-Administration votes, including t hose against medicare, aid to education, foreign aid, the nuclear test ban treaty, the Peace Corps and civil rights. Because of past political favors, because the liberals were badly organized-and because the White House carefully did not intervene-Russell Long won out over Rhode Island's John Pastore and Oklahoma's Mike...
Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey was in San Juan, along with Senator William Fulbright, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. They were bidding goodbye to an old friend and welcoming a new one as the next Governor of Puerto Rico. Stepping down at last was Luis Muñoz Marin, 66, the island commonwealth's leader for the past 16 years. Into the Governor's La Fortaleza palace went Roberto Sánchez Vilella, 51, Muñoz' able Secretary of State (Vice Governor) and hand-picked successor who has worked faithfully for el maestro since...
...floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone (and he was seldom off it) he was equally effective. Hubert Humphrey once complained that the only way he could resist Johnson's hypnotic persuasiveness was by not answering the phone...