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...role Mondale has played in this campaign also underlines the growing attention to the personality and character of the vice presidential nominee. Mondale, a protege of Hubert Humphrey, was nominated in 1976 primarily because of his strong ties to the liberal side of the Democratic party and his widespread support in the Midwest and Northeast. But in the 1980 campaign his appeal seems to be based at least equally on his personal integrity and low-key style. An easy-going politician who is respected by liberals and neo-conservatives alike, Mondale has to a degree counterbalanced Carter's aloof...
...interviews Miller compiled with Hubert H. Humphrey are especially revealing, portraying a vice president overshadowed and intimidated by his superior. Humphrey tells Miller about a humiliating episode at the 1964 Democratic convention when Johnson forced him to dress up in a cowboy suit and ride horses with Johnson for all the photographers. Humphrey presents himself as the eternally loyal soldier, even when the association with Johnson proved politically harmful. Of the 1968 election, Humphrey says, "Most people were dead wrong" that Johnson hurt his campaign--that in fact the president had been "an asset...
Liberals who today are tempted not to vote or to cast a protest vote in hopes of building a challenge to the New Right must remember the lesson of 1968. In that year, many college students disdained to vote for either Hubert H. Humphrey or Richard M. Nixon because they considered both candidates to be neanderthals. Perhaps as a result, Nixon was elected by a margin of 1 per cent of the popular vote. The nation paid a heavy price for the liberals' refusal to vote for whom they considered the lesser of two evils. The same must not happen...
...Fresh Pond is a favorite place for my family--one of my nicest memories was the morning I discovered a kingfisher lived there... The new taxes that just came out are not among the nicest memories. Neither is the MBTA." --Hubert Jessup...
...muted opinion since the first days of Carter's stewardship contending that behind the beatific smile and inside the big heart lurks a nasty impulse, most often contained by success but apt to escape in times of stress and failure. Thus did Carter say unfortunate things publicly about Hubert Humphrey, Ted Kennedy and Cyrus Vance. But almost always the calm returned, and for the most part Carter appeared to practice the good will that he preached and prayed...