Word: humphrey
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NINE weeks before the Democratic Convention in Chicago, Vice President Hubert Humphrey is in easy reach of a first ballot victory. 341 delegates are already committed to Humphrey and 995½ lean toward him but could conceivably turn elsewhere. Needed to nominate: 1,312. Senator Eugene McCarthy's 322½ committed votes are augmented by a mere 105½ votes leaning in his direction. The remaining 857½ votes could flow either way. They include 338 votes for favorite sons who could declare for Humphrey even before the first ballot. The probable first-ballot roll call of delegates...
Alabama (32 votes): George Wallace has 17½ certain votes, may wind up with 21. Hubert Humphrey has 1½ for sure, with 9 more leaning his way. Half a vote is still uncommitted...
Alaska (22): Humphrey is likely to win all 22 under Alaska's unit rule...
Well, not quite. Would you believe Lyndon Johnson? Hubert Humphrey? Dean Rusk? Robert McNamara? Defense Secretary Clark Clifford? A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany? They are all in Who's Who. So is Composer Leroy Anderson (The Syncopated Clock) who was, to be sure, a U.S. military intelligence captain in World War II and Korea. So are Pulitzer Prizewinning Cartoonist Bruce Shanks of the Buffalo Evening News and Phil Santora of the New York Daily News, not to mention Newsday Publisher Bill Moyers, L.B.J.'s former press secretary. On the list too are Arthur Schlesinger and HEW ex-Secretary...
...begins by disclaiming any prejudice. It is, says the narrator, "an indictment of American foreign policy, not Americans." But the Americans on camera are treated with savage contempt. General Westmoreland's address to Congress is shown on color TV while someone fiddles with the color and intensity. Hubert Humphrey utters an optimistic appraisal of Europe as "Humphrey, Go Home!" signs parade past the camera...