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Reverse twist: Supporters of Vice Presidential hopefuls Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy had plenty of campaign buttons on hand, but were afraid to wear them. With LBJ, Mister Clam himself, sitting tight on his choice to the final wire, backers of the Minnesota Twins hesitated to put pressure on him…. Not so the irrepressible supporters of Bobby Baker whose buttons In banners proclaimed that their man was “good with figures” and could “work hand in glove with LBJ. “… McCarthy—who was definitely not Labor’s candidate—did permit hmiself one sour-grapeish note. The Veep’s role in the campaign, he said, “is to make speeches in areas served by DC-5s and Convairs.”… AFL-CIO, represented by 244 delegates, played it cool. That was the best way, their strategists told them, to help their cat Hubert.

Beach debris included Rockwell’s Nazis (briefly), American White Party, and lackluster sit-in by Mississippi Freedom Party sympathizers from CORE, SNCC. Sitters—in lacked verve, enthusiasm, lungpower they had exhibited in anti-Goldwater demonstrations at the Cow Palace…. In unofficial JFK-LBJ popularity poll (as judged by dashboard statuary, trinkets, and postcards) it was JFK—all the way…. Pres. Johnson (who kept his eye on convention via video) during first three days reportedly increasingly irked by talk of hotdog stands, flag-sitters, fortune-tellers, most irked of all by crack that Atlantic City was—the people’s Newport.

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Reverse twist: Supporters of Vice Presidential hopefuls Hubert Humphrey and Eugene McCarthy had plenty of campaign buttons on hand, but were afraid to wear them. With LBJ, Mister Clam himself, sitting tight on his choice to the final wire, backers of the Minnesota Twins hesitated to put pressure on him…. Not so the irrepressible supporters of Bobby Baker whose buttons In banners proclaimed that their man was “good with figures” and could “work hand in glove with LBJ. “… McCarthy—who was definitely not Labor’s candidate—did permit hmiself one sour-grapeish note. The Veep’s role in the campaign, he said, “is to make speeches in areas served by DC-5s and Convairs.”… AFL-CIO, represented by 244 delegates, played it cool. That was the best way, their strategists told them, to help their cat Hubert.

Beach debris included Rockwell’s Nazis (briefly), American White Party, and lackluster sit-in by Mississippi Freedom Party sympathizers from CORE, SNCC. Sitters—in lacked verve, enthusiasm, lungpower they had exhibited in anti-Goldwater demonstrations at the Cow Palace…. In unofficial JFK-LBJ popularity poll (as judged by dashboard statuary, trinkets, and postcards) it was JFK—all the way…. Pres. Johnson (who kept his eye on convention via video) during first three days reportedly increasingly irked by talk of hotdog stands, flag-sitters, fortune-tellers, most irked of all by crack that Atlantic City was—the people’s Newport.