Word: humphrey
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...along the East Coast, were strong Kennedy country; he even strengthened it by giving himself the doubtful First, at the base of his thumb. Still uncertain was the area running roughly from the middle finger to the pinkie-the Second, Seventh, Ninth, and Tenth. That is where Opponent Hubert Humphrey has been riding high, and where last week Jack Kennedy rolled his campaign machinery...
Moreover, the fortnight delay in House debate and the predictable foot-dragging of Southern Senators would push Senate crucial votes into early spring, when Johnson's rivals for the Democratic nomination - Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey - would be most anxious to be off campaigning in Wisconsin for the April 5 primary. But what good Democratic candidate would risk missing a civil rights debate, even if it starred Lyndon Johnson...
Stumping through the towns and cities of Wisconsin last week were two slugging Democratic presidential aspirants: Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey. With only six weeks to go before the Wisconsin "sudden-death" primary, each left off attacking the other, got down to politicking at luncheons, receptions, factories and even barbershops. The crowds were big and interested, but just how grimly interested one candidate was in the crowds (and their votes) was revealed in a conversation between Kennedy and TIME Correspondent Robert Ajemian. Kennedy's views...
Kennedy v. Humphrey: "I just can't bleed all over the floor like Hubert does. If you check our records, you'll find that in 95% of the cases, our voting has been the same. But we're temperamentally different. He likes to lambaste; I don't think it pays off. Does that make him more liberal than me? Hell, my voting record isn't perfect, but he's got soft spots...
...after Nixon. People get fed up with that kind of stuff. My problem here is to get myself known, to get these people to take me seriously. If this were in New Hampshire, or Maryland, where people know me, I'd clobber Hubert. I'd bury him." Humphrey's Financial Strength: "I know people in New York have contributed heavily. If Hubert Humphrey can't raise money under these circumstances, with all the people who want to stop me in Wisconsin, like Symington and Johnson and the rest, he's just not competent." The Results...