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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...
...Gorey: After watching the wild, rushing quality of Humphrey's campaign, Nixon's seems like clockwork. Humphrey is about as susceptible to programming as the Marx Brothers...
...Gorey: Humphrey seems psychologically incapable of being on time. The reason is talk-whether to a group, a person, even a dog. He can't leave until he has indulged in verbal overkill...
...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 to one speech and seldom bothers with position papers or shifts in strategy...
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...