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...point: The President should give the nation moral inspiration as well as political leadership. Portlist trusts Johnson to get legislation passed, administer the executive branch efficiently, keep the peace, and handle all the other functions attached to the White House. But he looks to Johnson's running mate, Hubert Humphrey, to symbolize "the intelligence, idealism, and integrity which the people demand in their Presidents...
...folks like you that sustain me in my labors and my thoughts." It was much the same Lyndon Johnson who late on election night returned through a driving rain to his ranch on the banks of the Pedernales. He invited everybody-well, almost everybody-to join him and Hubert Humphrey there the next day for a great barbecue, a fitting, folksy feast to celebrate a great popular victory...
...drizzling when Hubert Humphrey awoke in Minneapolis on Election Day morning, but nothing could dampen his spirits. "When we get to Waverly," he told his wife Muriel during the 40-mile drive to their home town, "there'll be no rain. This is St. Hubert...
...reason to be happy and excited, for he had waged a bold and joyous campaign, and in the aftermath he could validly claim that he had made a considerable contribution to the size of the Democratic victory. Soon after his nomination, Minnesota's Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag dubbed Hubert "the happy warrior of our generation," and throughout the campaign Humphrey lived up to the title. He had "The Happy Warrior" painted on the chartered Electra that carried him some 52,000 miles back and forth across the U.S. Aboard the Warrior, happy days were mandatory. West Virginia Folk Singer...
Even when Hubert got carried away -as he did at a Cleveland steer roast, when he urged his audience to "send up to heaven" a resounding Democratic victory that John Kennedy could hear -it didn't seem offensive...