Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shadowed by past membership in the Ku Klux Klan, v. an exuberant former Vice President who is esteemed as an elder statesman of the Democratic Party. Yet the heavy betting favorite is shrewd Robert C. Byrd, 58, and not Minnesota's liberal crusader, 65-year-old Hubert Humphrey...
...only hitch in Byrd's arduous climb to the top may be the secret vote in the 62-Senator Democratic caucus. Head counters give Byrd 30 votes, two 14 short of a majority, and Humphrey 22. Humphrey hopes to pick up the ten votes he needsthat Byrd is acceptable to labor. He wasn't about to go against a sure winner." Humphrey's health also worries Senators, who wonder whether he will have the vitality for the job after undergoing removal of his cancerous bladder. Says Hubert, who insists that he has been advised he is healthy enough: "I prefer...
...closest to him. "Jimmy's a hard person to get to know," admits Top Aide Hamilton Jordan. Says another: "His insides are made of twisted steel cable." He is notorious for not thanking staffers for their 18-hour days, and a harsh streak occasionally surfaces. When Hubert Humphrey was thinking of jumping into the primaries, Carter said that the Senator, then 64, was too old to be President, and, besides, he was a "loser." Later Carter apologized for that tasteless crack...
Actually, the Woodstein of Koreagate is no stranger to Page One. Last year Cheshire won a wall full of journalism awards for her disclosures that Pat Nixon, Hubert Humphrey and lesser public figures had kept millions of dollars' worth of gifts from foreign governments, in violation of a 1966 statute. A few years earlier, Cheshire investigated the $1 million worth of antiques donated by wealthy Americans to help Jacqueline Kennedy refurbish the White House: to Jackie's embarrassment, a seven-article series listed the age, origin, donor and occasionally dubious value of each piece. That prying brought...
...testimony earlier this year before a Senate subcommittee on the Humphrey-Hawkins bill, and in the Godkin Lectures on the essentials of government delivered at Harvard last month, Charles Schultze spelled out some of his ideas on the different roles of government and the private sector...