Did Reagan Bogart Humphrey?
February 6, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Fascinating tidbit in Andrew Glass’ profile today of Reagan-era hawk and arms negotiator Max Kampelman in Politico:
Did Reagan vote for Humphrey in 1968, over Richard Nixon, whom Reagan privately detested?
Kampelman says he has reason to believe he did. He first met Reagan in 1978 in Palm Beach, Fla., when the former California governor spoke at a fundraiser for the American Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, which Kampelman chaired.
“He asked me how I got to Washington,” Kampelman said. “I told him I had come from Minnesota with Hubert Humphrey. His eyes lit up. He told me Humphrey was one of his best friends and that he would have made a great president.”
richarda said,
February 6, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Wasn’t Reagan head of ‘Democrats for Nixon’ in 1960?
Butthead N. Beavis said,
February 6, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
Heh-heh: he said “Bogart”.