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...Hubert the Silent
Several years ago, the Seattle Times published a picture of Senator Hubert Humphrey with his mouth closed. I haven't seen it since and presumed it was a collector's item. Its value has been eroded by your March 1 and 15 issues...
Only five weeks into the primaries, Gerald Ford has already decided that the once-crowded Democratic field really shapes up as a two-man race. He expects the nominee to be Hubert Humphrey if the convention becomes deadlocked. But increasingly, he and his aides are paying attention to Jimmy Carter as a possible adversary in November, particularly if he can sprint far enough ahead of the Democratic pack in the primary tests ahead...
...Georgian's staff, meanwhile, dismisses Humphrey by claiming that it is Jimmy, not Hubert, who has updated the old Roosevelt coalition with an unbeatable combination of blacks, blue-collar "ethnics," white-collar suburbanites, liberals and conservatives. Boasts Carter of his appeal: "It is just like Bobby Kennedy's." But Carter has not yet demonstrated that he can win in a northern industrial state against his major rivals, Jackson and Udall. His chance comes next week in Wisconsin and New York. The situation in both states was fluid, but the races shaped up last week as follows...
...chairman of the Joint Economic Committee wasted no time stating the issue as he saw it. "We stand today at a historic crossroad," said Senator Hubert H. Humphrey. "We can accept the policies that have brought stagflation. Or we can . . . replace them with a new economics." He was referring to the "Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1976," which he has co-authored with California Representative Augustus Hawkins and which is rapidly becoming a kind of election manifesto for liberal Democrats. The true purpose of last week's hearings was to give national exposure to the legislation...