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It’s happening all over the country: Democratic governors and senators moving to fill power vacuum, trying to tie up blocks of convention delegates. John Connally of Texas will have Texas sewn up (the pros starting to wonder whether he wouldn’t make good Vice Presidential candidate on Humphrey-Connally ticket); Senator Clinton Anderson, an LBJ man from way back, may run as favorite son in New Mexico (would be first time New Mexico has had favorite son in its 56-year history); Governor Roger Branigin, who had entered Indiana primary May 7 as stand-in for LBJ, may announce that a vote for him is a vote for HHH…. Kennedy people, incidentally, fear that Negro rioting in the streets might hurt Bobby in Indiana, which is one of the primaries he says he’s got to take…. According to U. S. News, President Johnson believes his possible successors are qualified for the Presidency in this order: 1) Humphrey, 2) Rockefeller, 3) Nixon, 4) McCarthy, 5) Kennedy…. Javits thinks Johnson’s withdrawal means Rockefeller (“a candidate with modern feelings, the ability to enlist independents, Democrats, youth”) must get into race, but then Javits thinks that no matter what happens that means Rocky must get in…. Ripon Society announces that Richard Nixon is not all that surely a shoo-in…. Barry Goldwater, asked if Nixon had it sewn up, replied: “I wouldn’t use the word sewn up. I think he sort of has it in the bag.”

Other political developments: in cataclysmic week of April 1, it passed almost unnoticed that George Wallace got less than 1 per cent of the vote in Wisconsin: in 1964, he got 34.1 per cent of Democratic vote, 25 per cent of combined vote…. Sen. Mark Hatfield indicates he may not cast his vote for a Republican candidate who espouses Lyndon Johnson’s late Vietnam policy—meaning nix on Nixon and Reagan…. In Oregon, Robert Duncan having great fun describing maverick Senator Wayne Morse as “Oregon’s de Gaulle.”… Familiar name in politics: Louis Stokes, brother of Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, will run as Democrat-Peace candidate in Ohio’s new 21st District…. J. Dan Chandler, son of former Kentucky Governor Happy Chandler, has filed as Democratic candidate in Kentucky’s Sixth C.D…. James Buckley, brother of NR editor Bill Buckley, will run for Senate as Conservative in New York v. Jacob Javits and whomever the Democrats dig up.

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It’s happening all over the country: Democratic governors and senators moving to fill power vacuum, trying to tie up blocks of convention delegates. John Connally of Texas will have Texas sewn up (the pros starting to wonder whether he wouldn’t make good Vice Presidential candidate on Humphrey-Connally ticket); Senator Clinton Anderson, an LBJ man from way back, may run as favorite son in New Mexico (would be first time New Mexico has had favorite son in its 56-year history); Governor Roger Branigin, who had entered Indiana primary May 7 as stand-in for LBJ, may announce that a vote for him is a vote for HHH…. Kennedy people, incidentally, fear that Negro rioting in the streets might hurt Bobby in Indiana, which is one of the primaries he says he’s got to take…. According to U. S. News, President Johnson believes his possible successors are qualified for the Presidency in this order: 1) Humphrey, 2) Rockefeller, 3) Nixon, 4) McCarthy, 5) Kennedy…. Javits thinks Johnson’s withdrawal means Rockefeller (“a candidate with modern feelings, the ability to enlist independents, Democrats, youth”) must get into race, but then Javits thinks that no matter what happens that means Rocky must get in…. Ripon Society announces that Richard Nixon is not all that surely a shoo-in…. Barry Goldwater, asked if Nixon had it sewn up, replied: “I wouldn’t use the word sewn up. I think he sort of has it in the bag.”

Other political developments: in cataclysmic week of April 1, it passed almost unnoticed that George Wallace got less than 1 per cent of the vote in Wisconsin: in 1964, he got 34.1 per cent of Democratic vote, 25 per cent of combined vote…. Sen. Mark Hatfield indicates he may not cast his vote for a Republican candidate who espouses Lyndon Johnson’s late Vietnam policy—meaning nix on Nixon and Reagan…. In Oregon, Robert Duncan having great fun describing maverick Senator Wayne Morse as “Oregon’s de Gaulle.”… Familiar name in politics: Louis Stokes, brother of Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes, will run as Democrat-Peace candidate in Ohio’s new 21st District…. J. Dan Chandler, son of former Kentucky Governor Happy Chandler, has filed as Democratic candidate in Kentucky’s Sixth C.D…. James Buckley, brother of NR editor Bill Buckley, will run for Senate as Conservative in New York v. Jacob Javits and whomever the Democrats dig up.