Word: senlis
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...this criterion is used, the best Democratic nominee would be Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Humphrey wants the nomination. He has solid support from labor (although labor has not often proved to be a solid political force). But Humphrey might be too valuable to Johnson in the Senate. Sen. Mansfield, called by some "his own worst critic," reportedly will cede the Majority Leadership to Humphrey in the next Congress. Paradoxically, then, if Humphrey is outstanding in handling the civil rights bill he could impair his own chances to be vice-President...
According to Saltonstall's assistant, mail to Sen. Kenneth Keating (R.N.Y.) was about even until recently, but is now running four or five to one in favor of the bill...
Mail from Massachusetts residents to Sen. Leverett Saltonstall (R.Mass.) has been running four to one in favor of the bill, an assistant in his office reported yesterday, but last summer the ratio was as high as 50-1. Mail to Saltonstall's office from other states, however, has been "99% against the bill," according to the side. Most of these out-of-state letters are from California and the South...
John Stewart, legislative assistant to Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn), floor manager for the bill, said yesterday that organizations supporting the bill "naturally tended to be pessimistic" about mail ratios...
That leaves a great deal unsaid about Sorensen's influence on Kennedy. He joined Kennedy as a militant A.D.A. liberal when the junior senator was conservative enough to avoid the censure vote on Sen. McCarthy. Eight years later President Kennedy was proposing the Peace Corps and the Alliance for Progress. Something very basic had changed in Kennedy's thought during those eight years. Certainly Sorensen was in part responsible. Twelve years after graduating from law school, Sorensen is back on a campus again. He smiles when asked what he plans to do. "I guess I'll be interested...