Humphrey said that he would recommend to the Democratic Reform Commission that they do away with the "strict kind of percentage system" that was used in the selection of delegates to this year's Democratic Convention.

Though Senator Humphrey expressed his approval of the Nixon Administration's troop withdrawal program in 1969, he said that his greatest opposition to President Nixon right now comes from Nixon's handling of the war in southeast Asia.

Referring to the President for the first time as "Nixon", Humphrey stood up to show the personal hurt he felt from Richard Nixon's management of the war: "He said he wanted to be judged and held accountable for his actions in getting us out of the war. He said he'd have us out in six months. He won an election on that!

"He won that election from me and he told the American people that he was going to get out of that war and he's still in it.

"Sure, he's taken out troops. But we've increased the amount of air power, we've increased the amount of naval power, we've increased the amount of fire power. And I think the President did not keep his word."

"It's bad enough for him to say that there would be no rise in unemployment and that inflation would be brought under control--this I suppose you could say is some what political. But when the war was the key issue, it was the thing, I'm sure that won for him--the promise that we'd be out of there.

"He hasn't kept that promise And I don't like it." In his own office. Humphrey showed a degree of outrage of the war, and a depth of committment against it that had never shown in his campaign It is a side of Hubert Humphrey that he seems unable to communicate on television.

Discounting reports that many of his former supporters were jumping on the Nixon bandwagon, Humphrey said that the anti-McGovern feeling among disaffected Democrats will soon subside.

"When the chips are down, we're all Democrats. George McGovern is our nominee, and my idea is that you pull the team together and go to work."

A buzzer sounded in his office, the buzzer that tells every senator that an important vote will be taken on the Senate floor in five minutes. Humphrey stood up, straightened his tie, and strode confidently out of the office, down the marble hallway, with an aide trailing behind