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SUNDAY: CBS News Special, An Interview with four freshman senators Huddleston (D-Ky.). Holms (R-N.C), Hathaway '(D-Me.), and Biden (D-Def.). CH. 7. Noon. Color...
SENATORS DEMOCRAT NIXON Hathaway, Me. 53% 61% Huddleston, Ky. 51 64 Haskell, Colo. 50 63 GOVERNORS Docking, Kans. 63 68 Salmon, Vt. 55 63 Kneip, S. Dak. 60 54 Rampton, Utah 70 68 Judge, Mont. 54 58 Bumpers...
...Kentucky Democrat Walter D. Huddleston, 46, is generally known as "Dee," from hi? middle initial. The nickname was a handy one during his successful campaign for the Senate seat vacated by Republican John Sherman Cooper. As state senate majority leader, Huddleston helped repeal a 5% sales tax on food items that Kentuckians vigorously resented; the tax, as it happened, had been raised by his opponent, former Governor Louie B. Nunn (no kin to Georgia's new Senator Sam Nunn). Huddleston labeled Oct. 1, when the tax repeal on food items took effect, as "Dee-day" and reminded voters...
...sales tax increase, and the fact that Nunn ran for Governor in 1967 on a no-new-tax platform, so irritated voters that Huddleston made it the foundation of a strong campaign. Tuesday became another Dee-day, and Huddleston emerged as the first Kentucky Democrat in the U.S. Senate in 18 years...
Nixon walked away with 60 per cent of Kentucky's popular vote, but his coattails were too short the former Governor Louie B. Nunn, who was edged by Democrat Walter Huddleston in a close race for the Senate seat of retiring John Sherman Cooper...