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...last act, the lines spoken loudest continued to be less than entertaining and far short of enlightening. Nixon started the week in Albany, N.Y., by decrying personal invective. Later, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, he called the Democrats "that scruffy bunch" and a "disorganized rabble not to be trusted with the new leadership." In Humphrey's Minnesota, he called the Vice President "a man who has been trained to say yes" and one "who has trotted meekly along behind his master." Though some of his darts were aimed at creditable targets, Nixon's overstated attacks, as during the previous...
...sensibilities, and planning reluctantly to back Hubert. It is probably the main ideological reason McCarthy will soon endorse the Vice President. But to some McCarthy backers, noisily evident Friday, not even the arms control controversy is sufficient reason to back Lyndon's boy, especially after Chicago. Not surprisingly, the loudest cheers at the rally came after McCarthy stuck a satiric rapier in Hubert's invisible back...
...Behold how quickly doth the bubble burst! Too bad there had to be a sacrificial lamb to point out the inevitable, but better Czechoslovakia now than us later. Conservatives are profoundly entitled to utter the loudest "We told you so" of the decade...
...doves received the loudest ovations for their statements. But the pro-Administration forces, dominated by Southerners who were determined to prevent a repudiation of Johnson's policies though not particularly interested in how the plank might damage Humphrey, received the most votes. When Albert read the final tally, it stood at 1,567¾ for the majority plank, 1,041¼ for the minority. Even before he finished reading the results, a chant of lament began in the New York delegation: "We shall overcome, we shall overcome . . ." From the galleries: "Stop the war! Stop...
...talking about race," he told an audience in Rhode Island last week. "We're talking about anarchy. One reason we're gonna be elected President is because we're the only one that's talked out against this sort of thing." Ronald Reagan gets his loudest applause when he refers to the issue of crime in the streets. "We talk of sending a man to the moon," he observed in Alabama, "but we can't even send a man safely across the park...