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Throughout much of the rest of the state, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.), Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.), and Senator Edmund M. Muskee (D-Me.) are bunched together in a tight race for second place...
...MUSKIE practices putting with Goofy and braces the wind in a swamp buggy. Scoop Jackson Indian-wrestles a brewery worker. Hubert Humphrey bobs and waves from a merry-go-round. George McGovern presses the flesh in a beauty parlor. John Lindsay savors the pure air of the scuba diver. On a loftier plane, the once and future candidate, Richard Nixon, meets the folks in China-and that momentous event, too, has its political significance. The great quadrennial callithump of politics, American style, is under...
...Hampshire, Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin. He is most vulnerable in Florida; if he should stumble, he still stands a good chance to win in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Should he take the first four, or six out of the first seven, the Democratic race will probably be over. Hubert Humphrey hopes to spoil that strategy with his scenario: best Muskie in Florida even if George Wallace beats them both, stay a close second to Muskie in Wisconsin, then win in Pennsylvania. The odds are currently against Humphrey...
...HUBERT HUMPHREY. He is a little slimmer than before, a bit more modishly dressed, and he is trying to shorten his speeches. But basically he is campaigning as he always has-ebulliently, unbowed, as if the heartaches and setbacks of recent years had never occurred. He is reminding the party how much it owes to him -and many of the voters, especially older people, union members and blacks, gladly acknowledge the debt. For Humphrey, it is do or die, a last hurrah at 60 or a gratifying comeback. His organizations in most of the primary states are not very extensive...
...convention opened under a cloud. Undeterred, Muskie and Lindsay supporters, backed by most of the uncommitted delegates representing Hubert Humphrey, labor and blacks, lined up for the rule change. McGovern supporters stood by the stipulated reform procedures...