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Johnson's decision took Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey by surprise. Assuming that Johnson would wear the traditional cutaway, Hubert had already dropped by to see Washington Tailor Sam Scogna and get measured for the full-dress attire. Sam, forgetting that only spools rush in where tailors fear to thread, told everybody that the Vice President-elect was his customer for an inaugural outfit. Next thing Humphrey heard was a report that Tailor Sam was making a $175 cutaway for him. Making? cried Humphrey. I'm only renting...
...saddened. He tried to explain that he was no longer in the rental business and that Humphrey just had not realized it. He was really very fond of Hubert, he insisted. In fact, said Sam gently, "I wouldn't rent a suit to the Vice President. I'd want him to have...
...Hotel Astor. Thomas, who campaigned for the Democrats last fall with the slogan "Most of the way with L.B.J.," blasted the Administration's anti-poverty program ("to talk of victory is nonsense"), called for a cease-fire in South Viet Nam, opened telegrams of congratulations from Hubert Humphrey and Earl Warren. Best reading of all was a birthday check for $17,500, raised by the dwindling Socialist faithful. Thomas said he would divvy up the money among his favorite left-wing causes: "It won't last long, because every organization I'm connected with is going bankrupt...
...triumphs of Hubert Humphrey's Senate career was his 81-hour interview with Nikita Khrushchev in 1958. As Vice President, he would like nothing better than to repeat such for eign policy triumphs, but some frustration has already...
Though they may respect his abilities, State Department officials find un settling the idea of talkative Hubert becoming a foreign policy force. In deed, the story making the rounds of the department is that Secretary Dean Rusk wrote a letter congratulating Humphrey on his election, but suggesting that he limit his foreign policy activities to ribbon-snipping ceremonies and the like; an aide persuaded Rusk to delete the suggestion from the letter and send a more tactful oral message...