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Growth. Regardless of the specific problem, both must be considered pragmatists. Each stands at his party's center after more than two decades in national politics. Both have shown great capacity for growth. Nixon started out in 1946 as a follower of Harold Stassen, applauding the Minnesotan's "campaign to liberalize the Republican Party." Stassen gave the young congressional candidate a hand that year, but a decade later tried to have him dumped as Dwight Eisenhower's running mate. In the interim, Nixon acquired a gut fighter's reputation that softened only after his forced retirement...
...LeMay, the Wallace running mate. And enough Southern Democrats follow party discipline to elect Edmund Muskie as Vice President. In the House, however, all three presidential candidates are eligible. Southern Democrats, enraged by Humphrey's attacks on Wallace during the bitter campaign, refuse to fall in behind the Minnesotan. Some cross party lines to vote for Nixon, but for days the House remains deadlocked. Thus, in accordance with the 20th Amendment, Muskie is sworn in as Acting President on Jan. 20 and serves "until a President shall have qualified"-conceivably as long as four years, if the House impasse...
Erik Roth is used to being in the shadow of his roommates Shaw and Keith Colburn, who holds the University record in the half-mile. The quiet, rangy Minnesotan is famous for finding last-minute dates for the Saturday night parties which are rapidly becoming a cross-country tradition. "Elf" puts a lot of thought into his running and wrote a number of lengthy, detailed letters to his teammates last summer...
...party allegiance. Some are in races in which party unity is important. Thus Oregon's Wayne Morse has solidly endorsed Humphrey. Iowa's Governor Harold Hughes, who nominated McCarthy for President, is not even anxious to have McCarthy support his own senatorial campaign-until and unless the Minnesotan also supports the national ticket, as Hughes does...
Show of Support. Dismayed as Humphrey was by his party's confused, cacophonous mood, he began to brighten perceptibly as the balloting got under way and moved him ever closer to the nomination. The total mounted toward the needed 1,312. "Oregon is zilch," said Humphrey; his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Eugene McCarthy, had won its 35 votes in the May primary. Humphrey leaned forward expectantly, then broke into a wide grin as Pennsylvania put him over the top with 103¾ votes. "Pennsylvania started it and Pennsylvania put us over!" said the jubilant Humphrey, recalling that the state's show...