Word: humphrey
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Kennedy is still given the edge in his next encounter with McCarthy, the California primary. The Don Muchmore Poll predicts 40% of the vote for Kennedy, 25% for McCarthy, and 25% for Attorney General Thomas Lynch, who entered the race for President Johnson and is now assumed to be Humphrey's surrogate. Bobby fared surprisingly well in one nonelective contest last week, picking up a minimum of 25 of Iowa's 46 delegate votes (v. about ten for Humphrey, five for McCarthy) at the state convention in Des Moines...
Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
...Humphrey has gone to great lengths to explain exactly what he means by the happiness slogan-slightly dressed up as "the spirit of public happiness"-and maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...
...Hubert Humphrey bounces into the Oval Room of the White House, exuding more than his usual good spirits. "By golly, by gum, gee whillikers, don't you look wonderful, Mr. President!" Lyndon Johnson replies with his usual frankness: "All right, cut the crap, Hubie. I got somethin' to tell ya." Thus the President informs the Vice President that he does not intend to run for reelection, that the way is now open for a Humphrey candidacy. "Hello, Muriel Bird," the Veep burbles into the phone five minutes later. "Have I got good news...
...Beautiful People had their way, no one but McCarthy and Kennedy would be in the race. Though the Sinatras-Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...