Word: humphrey
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...sounding Commission of Democratic Selection of Presidential Nominees. Its aims are to campaign for abolition of the unit rule, offer guidelines on seating of disputed delegations, and work to ensure adequate representation for minority groups. Yet Hughes, now running for the Senate, is unhappy with McCarthy as well as Humphrey. Once a confidant of Lyndon Johnson, Hughes fell out with the Administration, largely because of the war, and became a Robert Kennedy supporter. Hughes agrees with McCarthy on Viet Nam, but does not regard him as presidential timber. Some other R.F.K. partisans, such as Larry O'Brien, have switched...
Since Robert Kennedy's death, McGovern, 46, has been an unofficial rallying point for disenchanted R.F.K. forces who are unwilling to accept either Hubert Humphrey or Eugene McCarthy. Last week, just 16 days before the opening of the Democratic Convention, McGovern made it official. In the Senate Caucus Room where both McCarthy and Robert Kennedy had announced their candidacies, McGovern declared himself in the running...
...would be anything more than a holding action designed to rally Kennedy forces. He suggested that a principal object of his candidacy was to apply additional pressure on party regulars to adopt strong platform planks on ending the war and resolving the urban crisis. He praised both McCarthy and Humphrey, who was his neighbor in Chevy Chase, Md., for nine years. He pledged that if either wins the nomination, "he will have my active support-not only for his own considerable merit but because there is nothing in Mr. Nixon's past record to indicate that...
Some McCarthy supporters sniped that McGovern's entry will split the dissidents and thus aid Humphrey's cause. On the other hand, it may actually strengthen the anti-Administration forces by engaging many presently inactive Kennedy supporters and bringing their added pressure to bear against the Vice President. Almost as soon as Mc Govern announced, old New Frontiersmen Pierre Salinger and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. endorsed him. Salinger and former R.F.K. Press Secretary Frank Mankiewicz are expected to join his staff...
...Erenstein said she does not expect the divergent points of view among Boston people traveling to Chicago to cause problems. "Most of us agree that we are disenfranchised," she said. "I think the difference between Resistance people and the McCarthy supporters won't be that great if and when Humphrey is nominated...