FARMERS WONDER ABOUT HUBERT

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• Document Release Date: April 20, 1999
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• Publication Date: April 13, 1966
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'I'sle Walshistg ton Merry-Go- tRol1n el
armers Wonder'About Hubert
By Drew Pearson
Out in the big dairying
state of Minnesota, farmers
are wondering just how much
influence their boy Hubert
Hubert Hum-
phrey, now
Vice President;;:
of the United'.
very persua-1
man, has long :
been the idol
pcarot
of the Farmer-
,Labor Party, was also touted
as the farmer's friend in the
entire Midwest.
But since his No. 1 friend,
Lyndon, substituted oleomar-
gine for butter In the armed
forces, every dairy farmer is
skeptical.
On top of this, the White
House has let it be known
that more dairy products will
be imported from New Zea-
land and Denmark In order to
:reduce prices further.
,Death on the Highway
-Inside reason why Rep. T.
Ashton Thompson of Louisiana
was smashed to death while
parked alongside a North Caro-
lina highway was ' given. by
Jimmy Hoffa, head of the
Teamsters, when testifying be-
fore the Senate Commerce
Committee on Auto Safety,
hours in violation of ICC max-
imum-hour standards and who
suffered from glaucoma in
both eyes as well as diabetes,"
said Hoffa.
"The accident reports show
that the driver testified that
he did not see the late Con-
gressman Thompson's car
parked by the side of the road
at the time the crash oc-
curred."
Jimmy Hoffa, who maintains
strict standards for his union
members, emphasized to Sen-
ators that most trucking acci-
dents.are,caused by "gypsy"
truckers,. not affiliated with
the union, therefore not
checked by the union.
Enforcing safety standards
on these gypsy truckers, he
said, would require thousands
of Federal inspectors.
"As an alternative to a large
corps of Federal inspectors,"
he said, "I recommend that the
Secretary of Commerce be di-
rected to impose regulation re-
sponsibility on the shipper
and/or on the trucker."
Senate-Go-Round
Inside ithe Dodd home. It's full
of Persian rugs . . . Shaffer
claimed Dodd never delivered
the speeches Gen. Klein wrote
for him. But Sam didn't read
the Congressional R e c o r d.
Take for instance tho Sena-
tor'?s private letter to Klein
Sept. 18, 1961: "I am sorry I
couldn't reach you late Fri-
day, as I made my statement
on the floor of the Senate as
I assume you know.
Here is a marked copy of
the Congressional Record" . .
The Senator from Con-
neoticut not only delivered
speeches in the Senate written
for him by the PR man from
Chicago, but outside the Sen-
ate. One Klein ghostwritten
speech delivered in Chicago
by Dodd aauded the Italians.
Julius's chief clients were
West Germans, but , he was
then reported trying to get an
Italian PR account, It always
helps to be' able to show a
client that you have a U.S.
Senator in your hip pocket.
War and Politics ,?.
Here's how the war in Viet-
nam Is Influencing Midwest
politics. Iowa candidate for
the Senate against Sen. Jack
Miller,, Republican, is another
Republican, named Herbert F.
Hoover, of Oskaloosa. Hoover
is campaigning on the charge
that Lyndon Johnson failed to
live up to his campaign prom-
ises on the Vietnam war and
that Sen. Miller, Republican,
has supported him.
He quotes Mr. Johnson on
are eager to enlarge the con-
flict. They call upon us to sup-
ply American boys - - . They
ask us to take reckless action
which might risk the lives of
millions. Such action would
offer no solution at all to the
real problems on Vietnam."
Republican candidate'
Hoover adds, "a special re,:
sponsibility lies upon Republi-'
cans to prevent Jack Miller,'
colonel In the Air fox-to Re='
serve, from delivering the Re-
publican party to war prof-'
steer
The Lady'Froin Maine
LBJ doesn't know it, but his'
Justice Department has under'
consideration for U.S. Attor=;
ney in Maine a member of they
old McCarthy gang that con
spired to defeat Sen. Margaret-
Chase Smith in 1954.
During McCarthy's heyday,
Sen. Smith had the courage
to initiate the "declaration of
conscience" against his unfair,
persecution of witnesses, and
McCarthy tried to defeat her:
He encouraged a group in Bid=
dleford, Maine - Bob Jones,
Charles Koutalides, Smokey
Stover Jr., lobbyist for the.
American Trucking Associa-
tion, and Lloyd Lafontaine, to
work against Mrs. Smith's re-
election. They failed.
However, the FBI is now In
Maine checking on. the back-
ground of Lafontaine for an
appointment as U.S. Attorney.
NOTE: In the Senate, LBJ
and Mrs. Smith were good per-
"His death was caused by a
'gypsy' operator who had been
on the highway 21 consecutive
If you wonder why News-
week's recent defense of Sen.
Tom Dodd differed materially
from accounts in this column,
ask Sam Shaffer, author of
the Newsweek story. He ad-
mits he spent 24 hours on the
story. Jack Anderson spent
four weeks ... S h a f f e r
pumped a nine-line column
reference regarding a Persian
rug given Dodd by Gen. Julius
Klein as a' mayor issue. He
never took the trouble to, look
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