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...ownership of California's 271 delegates. McGovern captured all of them on June 6 according to the state's winner-take-all rule-a rule curiously at variance with the spirit of reform. In the Democratic Credentials Committee late last month, a stop-McGovern coalition led by Hubert Humphrey's agents pushed through an after-the-fact change in the rules, parceling out the California delegation proportionately-a move that threatened to cost McGovern 151 delegates and prevent his victory on the first ballot...
...Nixon devotee. A friend since their early '60s days as members of "The Chowder and Marching Society," a Republican congressional social club, he advocated Nixon for a second presidential nomination as far back as 1965. The fact that it was Nixon who urged him to take on Hubert Humphrey in a hopeless fight for a Senate seat in 1970 has had no effect on MacGregor's enthusiasm...
Muskie's call netted no result. Neither McGovern nor his chief adversary, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey chose to attend. Others demurred: Alabama Governor George Wallace, displaying his old fiestiness at his first extended press conference since arriving in miami was not award of Muskie's invitation...
...Ocean, the first headquarters choice of several of the contenders. McGovern got the second straw, right behind John Lindsay, and thus will be ensconced with his entourage in 235 rooms at the Doral. With success has come additional need: he holds 299 rooms at eight other hotels as well. Hubert Humphrey (450 rooms) will be at the Carillon, Edmund Muskie (470 rooms) at the towering Americana in Bal Harbour. George Wallace will be off at the Sheraton Four Ambassadors and Dupont Plaza in Miami; he has 150 units, one equipped with a tilt table for his physical therapy. Shirley Chisholm...
...example, McPherson agrees with the conventional wisdom that Hubert Humphrey is warm, open, self-amused, bursting with affirmation of life. But he also sees Humphrey as a man not ruthless enough to carry through with the consequences of his judgments. Elsewhere, McPherson gets William Fulbright just right: "Bored by the kind of things with which most Senators were agreeably concerned, he was skeptical of man's ability to choose a reasonable course. He sometimes seemed to have a stake in losing, in being isolated and right...