Word: minnesotans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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McCarthy meanwhile is hedging his Indiana bets-"Each primary is critical but none is crucial"-while going on to show his ever surprising strength in other states. Solidly smacking the once fabled machine of Democratic National Chairman John Bailey, delegates pledged to the Minnesotan drew a full 44% of the vote in 30 Connecticut towns and cities last week...
...well control enough delegates after the convention's first ballot to tip the balance in a close race between Kennedy and Humphrey. Which way might he go? McCarthy isn't saying, but the suspicion, shared by Kennedy's strategists, is that he would favor his fellow Minnesotan, Hubert Humphrey...
...little uncertainty on the Minnesotan's part is thus understandable. Fortnight ago, he announced he would enter the South Dakota primary; last week he said maybe not. Kennedy strength has been growing there. At Bowdoin College, McCarthy said he would "favor" Johnson over Richard Nixon in the general election; later at Racine, he mused aloud that, if eliminated himself he might be neutral next fall. "I have a commitment," McCarthy cracked, "as chairman of the [Senate] subcommittee on Africa that I might honor at the time with a last great safari...
...second time occurred in 1964, when Johnson dangled the vice-presidency before McCarthy (and Connecticut's Senator Thomas Dodd) before throwing it to Fellow Minnesotan Hubert Humphrey. Lyndon lavished praise on McCarthy, called him "the kind of man-as we say in the ranch country of Texas-who will go to the well with you." McCarthy went to the well with Lyndon-and got dunked...
Cluttered Track. Before Kennedy took the plunge, he sent Brother Teddy, the Senator from Massachusetts, winging out to Wisconsin to inform McCarthy. Teddy reached Green Bay's Northland Hotel shortly after midnight, spent three-quarters of an hour with a drowsy, just-awakened McCarthy. Said the Minnesotan afterward "It was hard ly worth the trip. It was a courtesy on his part and I appreciate the effort, but there was no offer of any concession from...