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Looking for somebody to help heal his savagely divided party, Hubert Humphrey chose Muskie as his running mate in 1968. That decision almost saved the election for Humphrey. Muskie emerged as the star of the campaign because of his Lincolnesque calm and restraint. In 1972 he was considered the Democratic front runner, but he stumbled fatally while campaigning for the New Hampshire primary. Outraged by a charge in the arch-conservative Manchester, N.H., Union Leader that his wife Jane had a penchant for cocktails, Muskie stood in front of the newspaper office in a snowstorm to denounce Publisher William Loeb...
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...That year, Carter won with 28% of the vote, followed by Morris Udall (23%), Birch Bayh (15%), Fred Harris (11%), Sargent Shriver (8%), Hubert Humphrey (6%) and Henry Jackson...
...Hampshire. The White House has been shoveling federal funds into the state: $34 million for highway improvements, a $1.5 million loan guarantee to American Skate Factory in Berlin, an $850,000 housing grant to Nashua. White House surrogates-Rosalynn, Chip, Miss Lillian, Vice President Walter and Joan Mondale, Muriel Humphrey-have made New Hampshire a second home. But the biggest campaign boost of all would come from Iran. Jests a White House aide: "Do you think folks would yell 'partisan' if we flew the hostages back to Pease Air Force Base [outside Portsmouth...
Reality is hard to quantify in these times. A young (39) conservative Senator from New Hampshire, Gordon Humphrey, found like many of his fellow ideologues that the Carter address was appallingly weak. Liberals like Ted Kennedy were skeptical of the idea of reconstituting the draft in peacetime. Across the House floor there seemed to be chunks and pieces of a national mosaic but nothing holding them together. New Jersey's Millicent Fenwick was most animated when Carter mentioned women's rights. Republicans stirred themselves only slightly above polite applause when Carter promised to continue his vain efforts...