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...Meyner: Regional Entry
...behaving in keeping with his presidential po tential. Hubert Humphrey was aboard the S.S. Liberte, bounding about on the promenade deck, shaking hands and making friends, on his way to Paris for UNESCO meetings that will help him in his role as a leading Democratic foreign policy spokesman. Bob Meyner was in his Trenton statehouse wondering how to get overseas next year in an effort to overcome admitted shortcomings in the foreign policy field ("I can't afford to go on my own hook, and if I let somebody pay for me, people will say, 'Who the hell...
...danger to Kennedy is the idea that his millionaire father, Boston Financier Joe Kennedy, is willing to spend any amount of money to get him elected-an idea forcefully denied by Kennedy and carefully spread by his opponents ("He's a hell of an attractive fellow," says a Meyner man, "but he's trying to buy the convention"). Also, Hum-phreyites will make it clear to farmers that Kennedy has, on occasion, voted against high price supports (although he won the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s 100% approval for his votes on 15 key issues in the 85th Congress...
...Jersey's Robert Baumle Meyner is an eminently practical politician who knows he has a long way to go. "People," he mused one day last week, "keep coming up to me and saying, 'Oh, you're going for it, aren't you? You're going all the way.' Well, these are people who just don't understand political nuances. This is a very delicate and tricky business, politics...
...Meyner's understanding of the delicate and tricky business of politics has converted New Jersey, for decades a Republican stronghold, into a Democratic state. This year Meyner gained prestige when his protege, former Congressman Harrison A. Williams, won by 89,000 votes against rugged Republican opposition and became U.S. Senator. Moreover, for the first time since 1937, the New Jersey general assembly went Democratic...