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While a crowded field of candidates began to zero in on the New Hampshire primary, the man who many think has the best chance to win the Democratic presidential nomination, Veteran Campaigner Hubert Humphrey, watched from the sidelines. TIME'S national political correspondent Robert Ajemian visited Humphrey at his home in Waverly, Minn., and sent this report...
...learned that I don't have to be President to be happy," says Hubert Humphrey. It's an extraordinary irony to hear him say that after all those years of struggling to get the job. Sitting in his brown clapboard home on the icy edge of Minnesota's Lake Waverly, he adds: "I don't hunger for it like I used to. I've got my pride back, and I'm not going to lose it again...
...Hubert Humphrey...
...seem called for, and even start direct public-hiring programs (the union federation does not say for what kind of jobs) to get the jobless rate down to 3% and keep it there. By much the same measures, a bill introduced almost a year ago by perennial Presidential Hopeful Hubert Humphrey and Democratic Congressman Augustus Hawkins of California calls for a 3% rate within 18 months -but that bill has not advanced even to the stage of committee hearings. In fact, the latest opinion polls show that unemployment ranks a poor second to inflation as a public economic worry...
...Goldwater and Milton Friedman. Of the former, he observes, "He's a philosophic radical. He is, as Hayek is, a classic Whig or liberal. Goldwater is the most optimistic American. He believes that he knows how to produce a kind of frictionless, progressive society. He's as American as Hubert Humphrey--they both are great believers that they know how to make crooked things straight...