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During the long night of vote watching, Carter sat, coatless, his tie loosened, eyes on the TV screens. He also spoke by telephone with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany, New York Mayor Abe Beame, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, Minnesota Senator Hubert Humphrey and a nearly forgotten Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tom Eagleton. He talked to Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, whom he had once scorned as one of the "political bosses" to whom he owed nothing. "I really appreciate what you did for me," he told Rizzo, referring to the breakthrough victory in Pennsylvania...
...Supreme Court"), more than 55% of the Italian vote went to Ford. In the 24th Ward of St. Louis, a predominantly Italian, blue-collar area where 7,000 of the 9,000 voters are Catholic, Carter won by a less than 2-to-l ratio; Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey each took the ward by nearly 3 to 1. Said St. Louis Democratic Chairman Paul Berra: "Carter's firm stand on the Democratic abortion plank clearly cost him votes...
Despite all the "A.B.C." (Anybody But Carter) talk and some eleventh-hour feints by Hubert Humphrey, Carter had all but sealed his triumph by April 27, when he won Pennsylvania. Democratic power brokers like Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, AFL-CIO President George Meany, and others who had seen Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform...
Recent Vice Presidents have dutifully promised to bring meaning to the job. None have really succeeded. Even so, the role, with its perks and possibilities, is an attractive one: Hubert Humphrey confided to Mondale that without Viet Nam to haunt the Administration he would have relished the job of L.B.J.'s Vice President...
Some hardy Democratic perennials bloomed again at the polls. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Scoop Jackson of Washington, New Jersey's Harrison Williams, West Virginia's Robert Byrd and Mississippi's John Stennis all won easily. So did Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, the Watergate committee's Republican hair shirt. But one of the Senate's most famous names will be missing. In a stunning defeat, Robert Taft Jr., son and namesake of Ohio's "Mr. Republican," lost to Millionaire Businessman Howard Metzenbaum, whom he had defeated...