European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                By Harry Kelly a staff writer Ryphe eyes Glisten. The High Pink forehead shines under the lights. The hands pump and Batter the smok Yair. The voice crackles and thunders sock it to pm Hubert Bellows unenthusiastic fan. A Hall Ful of admirers cheers. Signs wave. A red coated band Lares out. And Here on the dais beaming stands Hubert Horatio Humphrey no. 2 and trying hard for almost four years. Fro now on hell be trying for no. 1, and in dozens of Halls dining rooms and gymnasiums the people will see Hubert Humphrey in his element. In an Era of the Cool candidate an the new politics Humphrey brings an old fashioned zest for political combatant fourth of july oratory featuring a machine gun delivery Barry Goldwater once clocked at "275 words a minute with gusts up to 340." an administration official who has watched Humphrey operate shakes his head with wonder Hubert is a scrapper. Most people when they have to mix it tip do it As a Job that has to he done. But Hubert enjoys getting into the pit and mixing it up. His juices  and the name of Bobby Kennedy i almost certain to stimulate the flow even More. Kennedy was manager for his brother s campaigns in the Wisconsin and West Virginia primaries when John f. Kennedy knocked Humphrey out of the 1960 race for the democratic nomination. West Virginia was a Tough  Humphrey s Lack of military serv ice in world War h came up. And when Robert f. Kennedy arrived at the Humphreys West Virginia Headquarters to offer the Victor s salutation to the loser mrs. Humphrey is said Mohave turned away. Humphrey his aides say is not vengeful politician. He does t even keep a Black Book to write Down the names of the people who have stabbed him says one. But he has a memory and ambitions and an awareness of How times have changed. Is he stands in his Natty suit with a Semi Continental Cut facing a Middle aged labor crowd Humphrey seems to aim his pitch at the Lawrence Welk generation rather than the Young swing ers mustered under the banners of Ken Nedy and Eugene j. Mccarthy Humph Rey s old colleague in Minnesota s democratic Farmer labor party. Maturity patience and experience Are words that crop up frequently in his speeches it is not a put Down of the younger generation by a Grandfather who will be 57 on May 27. Humphrey enjoys visits to the Halls of Ivy As much As Kennedy or Mccarthy but More than either of his two democratic rivals Humphrey can Point to his record in the Senate and his experience As democratic whip during the Kennedy administration Andas vice president under Lyndon b. Johnson. Humphrey recalls i stood through Many Long hard Days As majority whip of the United states Senate alongside president John Kennedy As we sought a nuclear test ban treaty As we had to face up to Khrushchev s threat of nuclear weapons in Cuba. I have been with president Johnson in the meetings of the National Security Council and alone with him at lonely hours in the White House not once but dozens of times in review of various policy alternatives facing our country in Southeast  Johnson and Humphrey entered the Senate the same year 1949, both Hail on the Campaign Trail Bert an old for political combat one official says Hubert is a scrapper. Enjoys getting into the pit and mixing it up. " ing from Small towns and familiar wit hard times of the depression. I came up the poor route says Humphrey. I four years Johnson a favorite of the Southern leadership in the Senate be came democratic Leader. When Johnson brought the Liberal evangelist from Minnesota into the sen ate s inner Circle he called Humphrey my link with the  now Humphrey whose Battle for a stronger civil rights Plank in the 1948 platform caused Dixie rats to Bolt the party is the Man of the establish ment endorsed by some of the biggest names of big labor and apparently the most favored of the three regular Denv of crafts South of the Mason Dixon line. He also has developed Rich contacts by being Johnson s Liaison Man with . Mayors and has built up a stack of political Blue chips by being the most Active administration speaker in the part Boondocks. But while the four years have apparently broadened his constituency among businessmen Blue Collar work ers and southerners they have also left scars. The deepest scars Are from the wounds Over the War. Despite his work  Humphrey his aides say is not a vengeful politician. He does t even keep a Black Book to write Down the names of the people who have stabbed him,9 99 for civil rights and welfare legislation some of Humphrey s old Liberal col leagues have called him a betrayer of the cause for his support of the administration s Vietnam policy. He has been pictured As a cheerleader for the War. The Board of the americans for democratic action the Liberal group Humphrey helped organize endorsed Mccarthy s candidacy. The party in his Home state divided so sharply in caucuses that there was a possibility that Mccarthy forces could control the Minne Sota delegation to the democratic convention in Chicago. Humphrey said a Minnesota associate had lost touch with his Home base. These new kids in the party Don t even know  one Long time Liberal colleague said Humphrey received him very courteously last Winter when he travelled to the vice president s Capitol Hill office to Tell him he was going to support Mccar thy and then he gave me a lecture on Vietnam. When he was through i told him that his role As advocate for the Johnson administration had spoiled his Powers of critical analysis. But i told him that if he became president the War would be Over in six months Hubert said maybe that was a goo note on which to end our talk Bart m said his door would always be open  potential political Embarrass ment in a presidential Campaign Are cases which thrust former Humphrey aides into the spotlight this year. Herb Walters a former Adro Nistra Tive assistant when Humphrey was sen Ator resigned with three other officials of Agency for International develop ment after allegations that they too favors from a belgian contractor. Hubert Horatio sock it to pm. Page the stars and stripes been ,. Alone with him a lonely hours in the White House not once but dozens of times. Ere at Ball game " up Humphrey married Muriel Buck in 1936. Max Kampe Imari a former Humphrey aide who now is Washington Law 5, yer and adviser to the vice president. Was Washington counsel for a Minne Apolis firm accused of sending inferior machinery to India under a foreign aids Deal. Recently a two engine air Force plan used to carry the vice president on Short out of town jaunts was pulled up awaiting his arrival at Washington a national1 Airport. Parked directly i front of it Tail to nose was a gleaming four engine a Rectra identical to the chartered plane the Happy Warrior Humphrey used in his 1964 vice presidential  Humphrey aide looked wistfully at the we plane and observed it look like the Happy Warrior Doc sol it there was a pause then he added we won t be Able to use that name mis.  he said with a Grin. Inis int a year or  Bobby Kennedy and wife Ethel strode out of the terminal brisk wind blowing Kennedy hair a he hurried Over to shake hands with television camera Crew then bounded. Into top Electra which was to carry to into Indiana for a round of Campaign is did t look in the direction of the wilting Humphrey plane. The Kennedy charter had Barj wasted off when a dark Blue uncouth. Followed by an aquamarine Sec re service car whipped into the parking lot out bounded Humphrey. He a quickly pumped the hands of camera of Crew his face round and Bright with Joy of pressing the flesh then into us plane All business his face suddenly serious and then up up and away went Humphrey seems to aim his pitch at Lawrence Welk generation rather than at Young  saturday the Star and stripes by United press International Hubert Horatio Humphrey Vic president of the United states since1965. Democrat. Born May 27, 1911, in Wallace . Served a mayor of Minneapolis minn., from 1945 through 1948 . Senate from 1948through 1964. Graduate of Denver colo., College of pharmacy 1933 University of Minnesota 1939 Louisiana state University 1940 married Muriel Buck 1936 one daughter and three sons Nancy Hubert h. Ii Robert and Doug Las. Worked As a pharmacist while completing his education taught Politi Cal science at the University of Minne Sota and macalester College St. Paul before entering politics worked for War production War manpower and air corps Roth programs during world War ii. Ran unsuccessfully for mayor of Minneapolis in 1943 but won election in 1945in 1948, he led the fight fora stronger civil rights Plank in the democratic National convention platform. Elected to the Senate Over incumbent Republican Joseph h. Ball by 250,000votes in 1948 reelected in 1954 and 1960a founding member of the americans for democratic action Ada he was instrumental in merging the Minnesota democratic and Farmer la Bor parties into a winning Combina Tion. He sought the democratic vice presidential nomination in 1956 and the presidential nomination in 1960 dropped out after beating John f. Kennedy inthe Wisconsin primary but losing in the West Virginia primary. Chosen sen ate democratic whip in 1961 when sen. Mike Mansfield mont., stepped up tothe floor Leader Post being vacated by vice president Lyndon b. Johnson. Chosen by Johnson to be his running mate in 1964has consistently sup ported Liberal Domestic policies and internationalist foreign policies and broke with Many of his Liberal colleagues in supporting the Johnson administration Southeast Asia policy. Page 13