Oct. 24, 1964 - Texas Republicans have begun the last full week of campaigning with the open assertion that if President Johnson is elected, “medical odds are that Hubert Humphrey [pictured] will be President before the term expires.”
The assertion, which until now has only been implied, is being made in full‐page newspaper advertisements and mass mailings to voters throughout the state.
The advertisement and the mailing are sponsored by the State Goldwater for President Committee and the Republican party of Texas.
Most of the advertisement is taken up with the alleged “extreme leftist” policies of the Americans for Democratic Action and Humphrey’s association with the organization.
But prominently displayed in a box at the end of the ad is the following:
“A vote for Lyndon Johnson is a vote to make Hubert Humphrey President. Lyndon Johnson had a serious heart attack in 1955. Doctors say the average life expectancy of a man Johnson’s age following such a heart attack is less than 10 years. Ask your own doctor about this. Therefore, medical odds are that if Johnson is elected in 1964, Humphrey will be President before the term expires. Never before has the extreme left had its man so close to the Presidency.”
The advertisement begins with the headline: “Do you know what Hubert Humphrey and the ADA want to do? It’s enough to scare the daylights out of all Americans.”
The advertisement was carried today in the pro‐Johnson Houston Chronicle, the largest paper in the state, but it was rejected by The Dallas Times-Herald, which supports Johnson, and the Dallas Morning News, which is making no endorsement.
It is not known how many Texas papers are publishing the advertisement, but the Republican party has offered it to most major Texas dailies.
In addition, Republican organizations are mailing to voters smaller reproductions of the ad as part of their regular campaign literature.
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