Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dour, brusque, blunt to the point of rudeness, Humphrey's private diagnostician is not easy to know or to like. Yet despite the suspicions he arouses as a result of his intimacy with the Democratic candidate, he is probably the most salutary influence within Humphrey's inner circle. "I have no ax to grind," says Berman. "I'm not after a damn thing. I have no intention of trying to become Surgeon General, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, or anything like that. That's why I can talk to the Vice President...
...something else was MEDICO, the CARE-sponsored health organization that helps develop clinics in underdeveloped countries. Berman met Humphrey in 1954 when he was called to testify on public health problems before a Senate subcommittee, of which the then Minnesota Senator was a member. Impressed with his presentation, Humphrey asked him to dinner. The two became close friends. A modern art buff with an impressive collection of De Koonings, Pollocks and Rothkos, Berman enjoys explaining his paintings to the Vice President, who likes abstract art but admits that he does not understand it. In 1965, when Berman was between careers...
Privy to all of Humphrey's top-level sessions and ultimate decisions, Berman, besides giving back rubs and advice, is keeping what he calls a "constant diary" of the campaign. Taking notes or, on occasion, using a tape recorder, he keeps an account of each meeting, then, as soon as he can, writes out what went on. With six weeks yet to go, his chronology already runs to 2,000 pages. If Humphrey should defy the odds and win the election, Berman would undoubtedly become Humphrey's Boswell, a physician-biographer with unparalleled access to the heart, mind...
...group with Wife Abigail and one of his chief fund raisers, Wall Street's Howard Stein, he enjoyed his favorite sports-swimming, sunbathing and needling. Said the Senator, weaving a metaphor that he picked up while campaigning in an Illinois textile mill: "Nixon doesn't have woof. Humphrey has lots of woof but no warp...
...Hubert Humphrey's campaign staffers recently witnessed an advertising presentation that shocked them. As proposed for a minute-long TV spot, it featured Humphrey's countenance superimposed on a dart board. While an off-screen voice solemnly ticked off Hubert's achievements ("first to come out for open housing . . . first for disarmament . . . first for aid to education"), darts went winging in on the vice-presidential face to drive each point home...