Word: humphreymen
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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From newspapers and magazines the Humphreymen gleaned articles, polls and opinions favorable to Humphrey, sent off copies to party officials, labor leaders and potential convention delegates. In June they commissioned a leading pollster to survey farm and labor leaders. The results, which showed Humphrey an overwhelming favorite, were quietly called to Johnson's attention. That same month, at the annual Governors' conference in Cleveland, Minnesota's Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag set about corralling more support. As a result of Rolvaag's work, several Democratic Governors casually indicated to Lyndon that Hubert was their personal preference...
Against McNamara, the Humphreymen could and did take counteraction. They circulated among labor leaders a report that the President had decided to choose between Humphrey and McNamara-and leaned to McNamara. The labor leaders, including A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, rose to the bait, let the President know that McNamara, a former Ford Motor Co. president, was certainly not labor's idea of an ideal Vice President. Moreover, many longtime professionals were strongly opposed to McNamara as a man who, until he went to the Pentagon, had been presumed to be a Republican...
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