The day is already 15 hours old, with no end in sight. The chartered Jet-Star shudders in powerful headwinds. It will be midnight or after when you reach your destination, the national convention of the Young Democrats in Hot Springs, Ark. You were supposed to speak at noon, but the Senate was voting on campaign financing, and you could not get away. They put you over to the evening banquet, but you could not make that, either. Here you are, Hubert Humphrey, age 60, twice a mayor, a national political figure since 1948, four times a Senator, for four years Vice...
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