Thursday, January 30, 1969
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Thursday, January 30, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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'DON'T COUNT ME OUT'
Humphrey
reviews
68
campaign
By SAUL PETT
WASHINGTON M) - Only
100 yards and 500,000 v o t e s
away from the White House,
Hubert Hjoratio Humphrey was
reviewing the campaign and
the election of 1968.
Another week, one more week,
he believes, could have won the
presidency for him with the
momentum he was showing at
the end.
Hubert Humphrey o n c e
thought he would be too old to
run again for president in 1972,
when he will be 61. He doesn't
think so now. "Don't count me
out," he says.
A "disastrously divided party"
is the chief reason Humphrey
cites for his defeat in 1968;
that and not enough time to
heal the wounds begun before
and during the Chicago con-
vention that nominated him.
He, says Hubert Humphrey,
was "the No. 1 casualty" of the
Chicago convention riots.
His views of the convention
and the riots are basically un-
changed, although at one point
he said, on reflection, he might
have been a "little more critical
of the Chicago police" w i t h
added information..
Humphrey expressed h i s
views during a long interview in
his office in the old Executive
Offices Building, across t h e
street from the White House. It
was during his last wek as vice
president. His mood, character-
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istically, was largely buoyant
and bouncy and optimistic.
Q. What's it like being a
lame-duck vice president?
A. It's bad enough to be a
lame-duck anything, but when
you mix that with the fact that
you were the candidate of your
party and that you came close
but not close enough, there are
many emotions.
The main emotion you have at
first is the sadness that y o u
didn't do better. That lingers
for a while. That and a, kind
of petulance and controlled an-
ger about the things that you
should have done that you
didn't do, or what could have
happened that didn't happen,
what other people did and what
they didn't do."
iQ. What was that f 1r s t week
like for you after the election?
Can you give me a little insight
into what the inner-man goes
through when it's that close?
A. Well, great disappointment.
Remember that in my instance,
I've been in public life now for
24 years of elected office. This
was the great opportunity, the
grand prize, and a man would
be less than honest with himself
if he didn't say that, when he's
reaching for that prize and
comes so close that his finger-
nails could almost touch it, that
you feel the sense of disap-
pointment, the deep disappoint-
ment.
We had some great dreams
about the country, about what
we might do, what I thought I
might be able to do as the pre-
sident, what I might be able to
do working with a number of
other people in this country. I
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don't think all those dreams are
lost, by a long shot; they may V
be delayed. Maybe somebody
else will pick them up and ful..
fill them.
Q. Why do you think you lost
A. Well, ther' maytig
. I would say. I think the timing
of our convention, the 1 a t e
convention was a liability. I
don't think that was premedi-
tated that way, but I think it
was because the convention was.
set for an incumbent president.
The fact of the matter is it was
the latest convention that any
non-incumbent candidate had
ever had. The convention t h a t
nominated me was held the
latest in the history of Demo-
cratic party conventions.
There was a difference of five
weeks between the Republican
convention and the Democratic
convention. That five weeks ...
was used very productively and
prpfitably by the Republicans. I
did not have those five weeks
to heal wounds, to contact peo-
ple to bind up the wounds, to
solidiythe political structure.
Then we .had the very long,
prolonged trouble in our party.
That dissension was disastrous.
Fortunately we were able to re-
pair much of it, but it 'came
late, very late. I think it's fair:
to say that we were coming on
very fast.
Q. Do you think with another H mp1
week or two?I
A. Well, that's all conjecture I think that my me
I think so. I don't know. My getting accepted -not
own subjective judgment is that spread as we would h
we would have gone on to win. but enough I believe1
Q. Apart from that, do you come through. Actua
think what your opponent of- ideological differences
fered affected the result? Was pressed in the camps
the country ripe for . . ? matters of degree, with
A. I don't think there was any ible exception of ar
problem about the country be- tro. I thought we w
ing ready for us. I've exam- explicit on that. I wa
ined this very carefully. The in- more frank - not fr
teresting thing is that the Re- much more determine(
publican candidate did not subject-.
gain a percentage point from But - well, you ju
the day that the campaign real- didn't have money in t
ly got started in September un- ning. Now the fact is v
til it ended. a good deal of money:
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able to get a good deal before
it was over, but it came late.
We actually did not have any
television or any radio until the
last three weeks of the cam-
paign.
I'm not critical of the media,
but I think there was a tenden-
cy to believe what had been
written and said so much that
you couldn't quite catch up
with the change of events.
Right up to the last week be-
fore the election, the leading
periodicals were saying that I
would suffer the most disastrous
defeat of any Democrat in the
history of the party. They were
saying that I had from 39 to 50
votes leaning towards me; one
went as far as 90 electoral votes.
Well, look what happened. You
know, when you're telling that
right up until the 29th day of
October, or the 28th day of
October, there's no way really
to excite people into support-
ing you.
So a lot of things. Well, I call
it a late start and a fast end-
ing with an awful long hiatus
in between, a very', very costly
one.
Q. You spoke of a disastrous-
ly dividedaparty . and .
A. A late convention, and
then the incidents that surround-
ed the convention occupied the
attention of the public and of
the media that no doubt left me
as a casualty; the No.1 cas-
ualty of the Chicago riot was
the candidate of the Democrat-
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DELEGATIONS FROM NORTH VIETNAM and the
National Liberation Front will explain today in Paris why
they rejected U.S. de-escalation proposals at last week's
meeting.
Last week's proposals asked that the demilitarized zone
be re-established as a buffer between North and S o u t h
Vietnam, and sought guarantees that the zone be respected.
- The U.S. has so far refused to view the rejections as
final, and regards them only as part of a long process of
battling for advantage at the talks.
THE SEIZURE of an American owned oil refinery in
Peru may cause a halt in U.S. aid to that country.
The old facilities, owned by a subsidiary of Standard Oil of
New Jersey, were seized because the military government
claimed the American firm owed it $15 million.
U. S. businessmen fear the P'eruvian government may
take over other American holdings as a reprisal if aid is cut
off. U.S. investments in Peru now total more than $500
million.
HOUSE DEMOCRATS yesterday stripped Rep. John
R. Rarick of Louisiana of his committee sniority for
openly supporting the presidential candidacy of George
Wallace last year.
The vote, taken in a closed caucus, was reportedly 101-
73 in favor of dropping Rarick from 13th to 18th on the
House Agriculture committee. Rarick says he will return
to his home state ancd discuss with his constituents any moves
such as leaving the Democratic party.
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THE ADMIRAL who oversaw the operation of the
S. S. Pueblo said yesterday that he did not consider the
ships two machine guns adequate defense.
Rear Admiral Frank L. Johnson, the first witness to tes-
tify on unclassified matters' at the Pueblo inquiry, also ad-
mitted that he had not been in favor of arming the Pueblo,
since the Navy had previously carried out successfully 16
similar unarmed missions.
GOVERNMENT REPORTS yesterday indicated infla-
tion last year reached a level of 4.7 per cent while U.S.
foreign trade performance was the worst in more than
three decades.
The rise ih living costs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics'in-
dicated, virtually offset wage gains of 45 million workers.
Officials of the bureau also refused to predict that the sharp
rise in prices would slow/ this year.
Trade statistics showed that the value of exports exceed-
ed imports by $725 million but this was the lowest figure
since 1937.
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LEGISLATION GRANTING the President power to
raise or lower taxes up to 10 per cent, subject to con-
gressional veto, was proposed yesterday by the Commit-
tee for Economic Development.
The intent of the legislation would be to give the Presi-
dent a more flexible economic weapon to curb inflation
and prevent recession. The tax changes would be implement-
ed through a standby surtax law, allowing rate to change
from year to year.
The plan of the committee, a research organization com-
posed of business leaders, is known to have interested several
of Nixon's economic advisors.
SENATE MAJORITY LEADER Mike Mansfield said
yesterday he may propose a constitutional amendment
to reform Senate filibuster rules.
Mansfield's comment came after he had killed discus-
sion of filibuster changes for another year through the par-
liamentary device of "adjourning the Senate later in the
day."
The motion to reduce the majority required to end de-
bate from two-thirds to three-fifths had followed a sugges
tion by Hubert Humphrey that congressional rules ~may
be changeo by only majority votes at the beginning of each
new Congress.
DEFENSE LAWYERS for Sirhan Bishara Sirhan yes-
terday received permission to attempt to prove the
system of selecting grand jurors discriminatory.
The defense, seeking to quash Sirhan's murder indict-
ment, contended that the grand jury indicting the Jordanian
did not represent a cross section of the community.
In support, of the charge, the defense produced census
maps showing what it claimed was evidence of prejudice
against Negroes in grand jury selection.
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