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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1968
Page
5
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Senator Robert F. Kennedy campaigned in Portland Oregon on Thursday with his wife Ethel a dog and a football star at his side drawing several thousand people under cloudy skies. The event aimed to boost Kennedy's bid in the Oregon May 29 primary despite a narrow polling edge by rivals McCarthy and the Johnson Humphrey team. Kennedy later gave a brief boat tour on the Willamette River for television cameras amid sparse voter turnout.
Sen. Robert Kennedy led Democratic and Republican nominees in a Cerritos College presidential preference straw vote, tallying 222 votes to Nixon 166. Wallace 18 for American Independent, McCarthy 111, Humphrey 38 on the Dem side. Rockefeller 47, Reagan 17 on the GOP side. Kennedy engaged voters at a downtown Portland rally with the Kennedys as camera crews and bystanders pressed for handshakes and autographs. Kennedy criticized Humphrey's politics and planned meetings with Oregon editors The Oregonian and The Oregon Journal.
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey campaigned in New York against Senator Robert F. Kennedy for the Democratic nomination. He urged mutual East West force reductions in Europe and sought to convey to Soviet leaders a tangible move toward tension reduction. Humphrey toured campaign events, addressed crowds from a motorcade, and contrasted his visit with Kennedy’s earlier stops in Huron, South Carolina. Humphrey rejected feeling strange running against Kennedy in Kennedy’s own state.
In Harrisburg, Edward Kennedy urged Pennsylvania's 130 vote delegation to remain uncommitted until after the California primary. He, representing his brother Robert Kennedy, said Robert should have a chance to meet delegates before they decide, noting he has yet to campaign in non primary states.
Thousands of college students welcomed Senator Eugene J. McCarthy in Los Angeles stops at Riverside, Valley State College, and Cal State Los Angeles. He attacked Kennedy on past policies, urged to stay in the race, and rejected claims about his Senate record. McCarthy pressed for unanimous opposition to the draft and suggested allowing draft dodgers to return if they serve another way. He planned a San Francisco speech next.
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