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Before swinging into the last lap of his campaign, Hubert Humphrey paused to reflect on what had gone wrong, what part his own personality had played in his troubles and how he still hopes to govern the U.S. During an interview with Humphrey in Washington, TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey found him newly self-confident, by turns introspective and expansive, self-pitying and resolutely cheery. Humphrey naturally stressed his role as the underdog, tended to blame outside factors for his difficulties, and spoke with such unwarranted optimism that his words occasionally took on an aura of unreality. Nonetheless, they mirror Humphrey...
...Gorey: Which of the two do you think could lead the nation better...
...Gorey: I don't agree with that. It seems to me that Nixon could easily fall into the same traps that Lyndon Johnson fell into, even more readily than Hubert Humphrey. One reason is Nixon's insulation...
...Gorey: It isn't beyond the realm of dramatic possibility. But rather development -and the prospects of that are remote now- Humphrey will have to do it through a steady erosion of Nixon and Wallace strength, through the image of decency he is projecting, through a return to the fold of millions of disgruntled Democrats, and through the fact that he might very well win some key states with a very small proportion of the white vote...
...Gorey: Humphrey has a leadership problem too. He knows that if he wins, he will be a minority President. And that might make it difficult for him to lead the country, to get the alienated into right as the well as the disaffected left back into the mainstream. The men are different, their responses are different. Humphrey might burst into tears at hearing Russia was moving, into, say Rumania. But he'd recover, and quickly confront a cold political situation. Nixon would tackle it as a cold political situation from the beginning. There is a legitimate argument...