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...federal-expenditure adjustments added up to "a minor bonanza mostly for the rich." Robert M. Williams, director of a U.C.L.A. forecasting service, predicted that the rate of unemployment, currently at a painful 5.8%, would fall by only .5% as a result of the program. Senators William Proxmire and Hubert Humphrey, among others, hinted that the new Nixonomics may be due for some design changes when it reaches the Senate...
...time away from Washington, frequently playing golf with celebrity and sport cronies. He continues his rounds of the Republican banquet circuit, but even in this familiar role his aides sense a growing ennui. His pride is affronted by the small ceremonial duties of the vice presidency that he calls "Hubert Humphrey make-work projects...
Square Position. Among ranking G.O.P. officials, Jackson was recently rated the Democrat Richard Nixon would find most difficult to defeat. In a July poll of Democratic leaders, he comes in a surprising second to Muskie, and leads Hubert Humphrey, Teddy Kennedy and George McGovern. Says another Democratic hopeful, Indiana's Birch Bayh: "There is a lot of support around the country for Scoop." When Hughes bowed out, he confessed: "I didn't take Jackson seriously, but I take him very seriously...
...Capitol Hill and contributed to considerable confusion in the lines of battle. Such conservative Republicans as Barry Goldwater and James Buckley, who normally support the Nixon Administration on important questions, opposed the bill lest the rules of free enterprise be violated. Such liberal Democrats as Alan Cranston and Hubert Humphrey, who would otherwise oppose a government handout to big business, supported the bill out of solidarity with organized labor. In the absence of clear-cut doctrinal guidelines, the bill-which had narrowly (192-189) passed the House a few days earlier-split both parties almost evenly...
...Contact. Unlike traveling Vice Presidents Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson before him, Agnew scrupulously avoids contact with all but the rulers of the countries he visits. The ex planation offered by his aides and Agnew himself is that it is not his style to plunge into crowds or conduct foreign diplomacy in a manner that accommodates "dramatic television pictures...