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...Hubert Humphrey, dean of the class. Scarred and bruised, but jumping and bubbling, the glands still exuding their special juices. It is odd how good he looks up close, but how old he seems from a distance. There in front of the desk he bathes you in warmth and enthusiasm. The mouth turns down naturally, and that, along with his pointed jaw, could make him seem mean, but he never lets it happen. Humphrey laughs uproariously and shows his visitors a little plaque that says TO HELL WITH DO-GOODERS. He savors a man of light heart...
...Ph.D. in government at Harvard. Manshell, now a New York businessman and publisher, has been an outspoken critic of the Vietnam war for years, and was an influential leader of the McCarthy campaign in 1968. Huntington, now Thomas Professor of Government at Harvard, was a foreign policy advisor to Hubert Humphrey's presidential campaign and a supporter of the government's program in Indochina. According to mutual friends, the two men disagreed so sharply over the war that they stopped speaking to each other for several years...
...from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against the funds...
Lowenstein refuses to express a preference for any one of the several Democratic Senators currently mentioned as possible contenders for the 1972 Democratic crown, saying it's too early and that issues are more important than men at this point. He will say however, that Edward M. Kennedy and Hubert H. Humphrey will not be nominated. Citing Chappaquiddick as the main reason, Lowenstein said, "Edward Kennedy simply won't get it." Regarding Humphrey, Lowenstein emphasized his respect and fondness for the Minnesota Senator but concluded, "To lose to Richard Nixon is an amazing achievement and nobody wants...
...meeting was held in an office whose walls were lined with the yellowing photographs of one-time Young Democrat speakers: former President Lyndon B. Johson, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and the late Adlai E. Stevenson. McCarthy campaign literature and leaflets announcing a 1966 Stokely Carmichael address littered the floor...