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...Hubert Humphrey, of course, has not yet faced a fresh test in the current mood. Always ranking high on decency and personal warmth, he is now seen as a rather comfortable old shoe-which fits the desire for serenity but not the search for new leadership. However, Humphrey is also seen as experienced in world affairs. If international concerns should arise to overshadow the economic issues amid continued recovery, the national mood would favor the most experienced veterans: Humphrey among the Democrats and Ford among the Republicans...
...busted play for me because of it." Last week he had to give up his chartered plane and his hopes of coming from behind with a TV blitz, but he did not surrender his candor. For the first time he acknowledged that the ubiquitous noncandidate, Hubert Humphrey, "has a real chance...
...virtues of Ronald Reagan is that every few days he says to hell with campaigning and goes back to his ranch to ride his horses and reminisce about his old movies. (His problems have to do with what he does when he is on the political job.) Hubert Humphrey, by many measures, is at his best when he is in Waverly, Minn., reading and musing about the country's past or trolling for bass in the evening calm. If he could bring himself to announce to the world he loved Waverly so much that he was going to stay...
...number of the memos, Hughes mentions Vice President Hubert Humphrey, whom he refers to as "Humphries," "the V.P." or "H.H.H." Hughes seemed to think that he could enlist Humphrey's aid in his own crusade to halt a huge nuclear test explosion that was planned in Nevada in 1968 by the Atomic Energy Commission (see cut above left). He had some environmental worries, but his real fear was that the blast would scare off tourists. His efforts failed; the test went off on schedule. Excerpts from Hughes' memos to Maheu from...
Ballet Theater. Zahedi's groupies included Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Natalia Makarova, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. But it was Taylor with her emerald-and-diamond baubles that caught the lights. It hardly mattered that pre-party rumors had erroneously linked Liz and Kissinger as dates for the evening. Sniffed Taylor imperially: "The important thing is that I came. Right...