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...Nixon; David Stockman and Reagan; Judas and Jesus.) To be sure, there are people famous for loyalty, but they are often loyal to a fault, and a supposed virtue becomes pathetic, stupid, sometimes criminal. Rose Mary Woods entered history when she stood by her man's tape recorder. Hubert Humphrey probably lost the presidency when he stuck by Lyndon Johnson and his Vietnam policies. Then there was always Mrs. Odysseus...
Like a fireman pointing a hose at a smoldering house, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan indicated Thursday morning that he will continue trying to cool off the economy before it bursts into flames. Making his biannual Humphrey Hawkins report to Congress, Greenspan again delivered the familiar sugar - the U.S. economic juggernaut is plowing on with no slowdown in sight - and then the medicine: This prosperity has to be kept at a steady pace. Financial analysts take this to mean that a substantial hike in the Fed's lending rates is in order...
DIED. BOB SQUIER, 65, Democratic political consultant; in Millwood, Va. Squier's clients included Hubert H. Humphrey and Jimmy Carter, and his masterly political ads helped ensure Clinton's 1996 re-election (see Eulogy...
...deficit. He began his run against Bill Bradley, that Fred MacMurray dad out of the '50s, by giving off disquieting signals from some region of his personality - the sense of a man incompletely evolved, the vibration of a struggling son. But maybe that was only a bout of Humphrey's Disease, the gabby and hyperthyroid fatuousness that afflicts vice presidents trying to break loose...
DIED. SAM JAFFE, 98, pioneering agent and producer in Hollywood's Golden Age; in Los Angeles. A movie mogul by his mid-20s, Jaffe opened his own talent agency in 1935 and soon had a stable of stars that included Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Richard Burton...