Having claimed an arsenal of 1,811 delegate votes 499 more than he needs to capture the Democratic presidential nomination in August Hubert Humphrey might understandably have been content to tend to his Washington chores or else to rusticate back home in Waverly, Minn. Instead, acting for all the world like a ravenous underdog, the Vice President scrambled through a grueling Midwestern campaign tour.
One reason for Humphrey's hyperactivity was psychological: if he stayed aloof for the final weeks before the Democratic Convention, Eugene McCarthy's supporters could claim all the more...
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