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...Fellow Minnesotan Fritz Mondale's choice as Agriculture Secretary . . . Age 48 . . . Congressman from a farm district since 1970 . . . Was prominent draft-Humphrey backer until H.H.H. dropped out, then switched to Carter...
...operation to remove his cancerous bladder, Humphrey said goodbye to his nurse and a crowd of well-wishers, then set off for Washington, D.C., to await election results in his campaign for a fifth Senate term. "I've had enough tests to go through 44 universities," said the Minnesotan. As for his regimen as a convalescent, bubbled Hubert: "I'll be swimming and walking, and, God only knows, I'll be talking...
...year ago, he voted with Minnesotan Fritz Mondale to expand the Congressional Budget Committee's federal budget recommendations by $9 billion. Today, he is beginning to talk about "bureaucracies" and the "frustration" of dealing with them. His desk is littered with old speeches, dug out by his staff, with the conservative passages underlined. Pennsylvania's Senator Richard Schultz Schweiker, 50, has a talent for flexibility...
During more than three hours of talks in Plains, Carter and Mondale found they agreed on the basic issues, although the Georgian has generally walked the middle of the road, while the Minnesotan is a staunch liberal (his voting record last year received a 94% rating from the Americans for Democratic Action-the same as Humphrey's). Mondale has a reputation of being one of the leading supporters of busing, but he and Carter even had a meeting of minds on that touchy issue. Choosing his words carefully-and seeming to hedge his previous positions a bit-Mondale says...
...told him we had met with Justice Harry Blackmun of the Supreme Court, a Minnesotan. "Yes, he's a good man," Mondale responded...