Word: support
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Ambassador to the U.N. to serve as a foreign policy adviser (see below). Ball's predecessor, Arthur Goldberg, signed on to help direct the Humphrey campaign in New York. Because both men were in varying degrees at odds with Lyndon Johnson over Viet Nam, their support helped put some daylight between Humphrey and the President. More will be needed before the Vice President can establish himself as his own man. But Humphrey is beginning to score some points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential...
...rank-and-file workers, especially in the ethnic neighborhoods of the North, are deserting the Democrats for the Wallace cause. Many Northern Democratic Congressmen are planning to instruct these voters how to split their tickets on Nov. 5 so that they can support Wallace without forgetting to pull levers for local Democrats. In the South, numerous conservative Democrats are openly allied with Wallace. Others are deserting to the G.O.P. Last week six cronies of Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, including State Comptroller General James Bentley, renounced their Democratic credentials and joined the Republicans. There is speculation in Atlanta that...
...honorary co-chairman of the Humphrey campaign, but amazingly enough, is also endorsing a write-in effort in behalf of McCarthy. The effort is sponsored by the strongly antiwar California Democratic Council, the nation's largest grass-roots political organization, and Unruh needs the group's support if he hopes to run for Governor...
...devote his efforts to raising funds for such antiwar Senate candidates as Oregon's Wayne Morse, Arkansas' J. William Fulbright, and Ohio's John Gilligan. McCarthy has requested half an hour on television next week, and conceivably may endorse Humphrey at that time. Yet his support, like that of other disenchanted dissidents, may be so tepid as to be valueless...
...risen over the last two months." A New York-based writer visits Baltimore and Washington, and finds that "crime-Negro crime-is almost the only topic of conversation." The Aldine Printing Co. in Los Angeles, the world's largest manufacturer of bumper stickers, reports that its bestseller is SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, the old Birch slogan...