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...that he would endanger the U.S. negotiating position by promising cutbacks of U.S. combat forces. The next day, Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, a knowledgeable member of the House subcommittee on defense, accused Humphrey of "loose talk-dangerous, harmful talk -confusing and, in my view, irresponsible talk." Whereupon he proceeded to indulge in much the same sort of talk. By June, Laird went on to predict, the U.S. will "likely" have 90,000 fewer troops in Viet...
...choose the best man. By the morning after his nomination, his mind was made up. A week before Chicago, he had met for two hours in his Harbour Square apartment in Southwest Washington with Gene McCarthy. McCarthy agreed that his own chances for the nomination were slight, whereupon Humphrey asked if the second spot would appeal to him. "No," said McCarthy. "Don't offer it." During the same week, Humphrey visited Teddy Kennedy at the Senator's McLean, Va., home. "Teddy told me he wasn't a candidate," said Humphrey. He asked Kennedy: "Is the door ajar...
Agnew drops the princess phone and shouts to Judy in the next room, "I'm it!" Whereupon the camera would zoom in on Elinor Isobel Judefind Agnew, 47, plump, brunette wife of the Maryland Governor, as she registers the pride and terror of being transformed from a cheerful home body who "majored in marriage" (as she puts it) into the wife of a vice-presidential candidate...
...hilarious scene, the four ladies wear bright orange and green costumes and hold mirrors backed with the same material. Behind them, four effeminate hairdressers--two platinum blonds and two brunets--are working on their coiffures, whereupon Boyet arrives in a bathrobe of the same material...
...beginnings of a plot into the girl's handy tape recorder while the express rattles along. Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant (A Man and a Woman) happens to be on board, and they decide that he is Elias, a dope runner on his first job for a big syndicate. Whereupon the camera picks up Trintignant sneaking furtively around the station, exchanging recognition signals and suitcases with sinister strangers and extracting a pistol from a hollowed-out book...