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...were essentially the same in Humphrey's speech, the music was different. Humphrey managed to convey to many, however subliminally, his readiness to take greater risks to settle the war. House Republican leaders argued that Humphrey's position represented no departure. But Richard Nixon took the opposite tack. He implied that the Vice President was endangering the prospects for a settlement in Pans by breaking with the President, whose war policies Nixon generally supports, and by allowing Hanoi to think that it might get a better deal from Humphrey. Averell Harnman, the chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, promptly...
...like the original good-time Charlie. Their patter runs in quirky, who's-on-first circles like slightly modernized Abbott and Costello. Dan: "How does it feel to have a few shows under your belt?" Dick: "Something shows under my belt?" Dan: "Maybe I should try another tack." Dick: "There's a tack under my belt!" Dan: "Hold it!" Dick: "But it may be sharp...
...Chicago disturbances have had on public opinion. His staffers sounded out Republican figures around the country, and were advised not to criticize the police. At the same time, Nixon did not want to be in the position of endorsing repressive police measures. In the end, he took the same tack that he had taken on both Viet Nam and the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice. The whole matter, he pronounced, was simply too important for partisan politics. Judgment should await the results of an investigation by the President's commission on violence: "I think that political figures...
...folksy, somewhat hawkish conservative. Monroney cogently defends Administration policies on the war, farm problems, gun control and the cities, but in a colorless style that tends to tune out his audiences. While both men are uncommonly shy for politicians, Bellmon drives himself through a saturation-handshaking pace. His key tack is the charge that Monroney has lost touch with the red-dirt prairies and hills of home...
Conservative Tack. The speech may suggest that Humphrey will now move to woo the right. The theory is that, barring a massive fourth-party revolt, the party's left will probably vote for Humphrey anyhow when faced with the alternative of Nixon and Agnew in November. Therefore, Humphrey might be persuaded to take a more conservative tack on law and order and the war in order to cut into Republican strength on the right...