In Washington's political spectrum, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Minnesota's Stevensonian Democrat Hubert Humphrey are many shades apart. Yet last week Senator Humphrey and Secretary Dulles emerged arm in arm from a conference at Dulles' home in which Dulles heaped laurels on Humphrey. Reason: so sharp an impression of U.S. interest had Humphrey created during a four-week tour of Europe and the Middle East, so well did he defend U.S. policy there, that diplomatic cables into Foggy Bottom were buzzing with well-dones.
Humphrey's role as traveling defender of Dwight Eisenhower was...
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