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...thirds of his way through the presidential campaign, TIME Correspondents Hays Gorey, who had been covering Hubert Humphrey's campaign, and Simmons Fentress, who had been following Nixon, exchanged assignments. They then met in Manhattan to compare their impressions of the two candidates and their campaigns. Excerpts from their dialogue...
...Which man has a memory this long: When TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress introduced himself this year to begin traveling with him, the candidate immediately said, "Oh yes, remember that morning in Atlanta?"-and then recalled accurately a meeting four years and thousands of acquaintances...
...TIME'S correspondents, who stay with the office seekers throughout the campaign. Ken Danforth has been on the trail with Muskie, whom he has come to admire as "a good guy with a little-known sense of humor, somewhere between Will Rogers' and Russell Bakers'." Fentress, with Nixon, is impressed by his perfectly programmed movements. Hugh Sidey and John Austin are also with Nixon, and Charles Eisendrath is traveling with Agnew, Hays Gorey with Humphrey. Arlie Schardt and Roger Williams cover George Wallace, whom they find surprisingly amiable in private but unexciting to cover because he sticks...
Inevitably, friendships, or at least mutual tolerance, spring up between the correspondents and the campaigners as they eat, drink and travel thousands of miles together. This week Hays Gorey and Simmons Fentress will swap candidates, Gorey going to Nixon and Fentress to Humphrey. That way, each correspondent aims to get a different perspective on his man and cast a fresh eye on his opponent...
...each correspondent was looking for the unexpected lead, for the new dimension in a story so thoroughly covered by TV, radio and the rest of the press. Washington Bureau Chief John Steele and Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil had roving commissions. Washington's Lansing Lamont covered Rockefeller, and Simmons Fentress stayed with Nixon. At Convention Hall and in the Miami Beach hotels, Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges stuck close to Candidate Ronald Reagan; Chicago's Loye Miller concentrated on the Middle West; Atlanta's Arlie Schardt stayed with the Southern delegations. Nine correspondents poked into every aspect...