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Winners & Losers: To Evans & Novak, it’s clear, Sam Nunn was the big winner in Tower affair, President George Bush the loser. Nunn got what he wanted, they say, a controlling voice in defense policy. . . . Not so, say columnists Pat Buchanan (Nunn was “the net loser”) and The New Republic’s Fred Barnes (“The myth of Sam Nunn as being nonpartisan has been shattered forever”). … A Knight-Ridder story quotes an unnamed GOP Senate aide: “There are no Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and their staffs that will ever again trust Sam Nunn or his staff.” … In fact, Sam Nunn, every conservative’s once favorite Democrat, has been edging left for years. Consider: His latest ACU rating is 23, whereas it was 73 five years ago; AFL-CIO COPE, 100 per cent today, 45 five years ago; ADA, 55 today, 35 five years ago. . . . Comments Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.): “There are no Boll Weevils any more.” . . . On plus side, Washington Post’s David Broder waxes lyrical over Richard Cheney’s qualifications as SecDef, says that by choosing Cheney “Bush has completed what may well be the most skilled, politically sophisticated trio of national-security officials Washington has seen in decades” (Cheney, plus Baker at State, Scowcroft at NSC). … In speech written for AEI before his nomination, Cheney attacked “congressional aggrandizement” in national-security affairs and tagged the War Powers Act as “unworkable and of dubious constitutionality.” He supports SDL

It’s Donnybrook time in Virginia, where former GOP Sen. Paul Trible finds himself in trouble with his own party. A number of big players in Reagan Administration have thrown their support in June gubernatorial primary to Marshall Coleman rather than to Trible. Says former White House Special Assistant William Bradford Reynolds, Trible is a “quitter” for retiring last year rather than face uphill race against Democratic Gov. Charles Robb. Also against Trible: former NSC head Richard V. Allen and Virginia National Republican Committee- man Morton C. Blackwell. . . . Early polls had Trible leading Coleman. Winner will face Lt. Gov. Doug Wilder, a black politician who has Robb’s backing. … In Colorado, Rep. Hank Brown (R.) was first to throw hat in ring to succeed retiring conservative Sen. Bill Armstrong. Brown, says Congressional Quarterly, is “a moderate Republican by Colorado standards,” which is to say his ACA rating is a meager 77, his ADA rating a soaring 16. … A Minnesota Star Tribune hypothetical match-up, incumbent Sen. Rudy Boschwitz v. Walter Mondale, shows Mondale—who has not said he’ll run—leading Boschwitz by seven points. . . . It’s not so surprising that Rep. Joseph Kennedy has pulled out of Massachusetts gubernatorial race: polls showed him trailing little- known Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy by a fraction. … In New York City, pros are stunned that high-pressure Republican strategist Eddie Mahe will be planning mayoral primary campaign of dark horse NYU Prof. Herb London. Better-known GOP candidates are former Amb. Ron Lauder and former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. .. . Connecticut ex-Sen. Lowell Weicker will be George Washington U.’s first “Congressional Professor.”

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Winners & Losers: To Evans & Novak, it’s clear, Sam Nunn was the big winner in Tower affair, President George Bush the loser. Nunn got what he wanted, they say, a controlling voice in defense policy. . . . Not so, say columnists Pat Buchanan (Nunn was “the net loser”) and The New Republic’s Fred Barnes (“The myth of Sam Nunn as being nonpartisan has been shattered forever”). … A Knight-Ridder story quotes an unnamed GOP Senate aide: “There are no Republican members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and their staffs that will ever again trust Sam Nunn or his staff.” … In fact, Sam Nunn, every conservative’s once favorite Democrat, has been edging left for years. Consider: His latest ACU rating is 23, whereas it was 73 five years ago; AFL-CIO COPE, 100 per cent today, 45 five years ago; ADA, 55 today, 35 five years ago. . . . Comments Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.): “There are no Boll Weevils any more.” . . . On plus side, Washington Post’s David Broder waxes lyrical over Richard Cheney’s qualifications as SecDef, says that by choosing Cheney “Bush has completed what may well be the most skilled, politically sophisticated trio of national-security officials Washington has seen in decades” (Cheney, plus Baker at State, Scowcroft at NSC). … In speech written for AEI before his nomination, Cheney attacked “congressional aggrandizement” in national-security affairs and tagged the War Powers Act as “unworkable and of dubious constitutionality.” He supports SDL

It’s Donnybrook time in Virginia, where former GOP Sen. Paul Trible finds himself in trouble with his own party. A number of big players in Reagan Administration have thrown their support in June gubernatorial primary to Marshall Coleman rather than to Trible. Says former White House Special Assistant William Bradford Reynolds, Trible is a “quitter” for retiring last year rather than face uphill race against Democratic Gov. Charles Robb. Also against Trible: former NSC head Richard V. Allen and Virginia National Republican Committee- man Morton C. Blackwell. . . . Early polls had Trible leading Coleman. Winner will face Lt. Gov. Doug Wilder, a black politician who has Robb’s backing. … In Colorado, Rep. Hank Brown (R.) was first to throw hat in ring to succeed retiring conservative Sen. Bill Armstrong. Brown, says Congressional Quarterly, is “a moderate Republican by Colorado standards,” which is to say his ACA rating is a meager 77, his ADA rating a soaring 16. … A Minnesota Star Tribune hypothetical match-up, incumbent Sen. Rudy Boschwitz v. Walter Mondale, shows Mondale—who has not said he’ll run—leading Boschwitz by seven points. . . . It’s not so surprising that Rep. Joseph Kennedy has pulled out of Massachusetts gubernatorial race: polls showed him trailing little- known Lt. Gov. Evelyn Murphy by a fraction. … In New York City, pros are stunned that high-pressure Republican strategist Eddie Mahe will be planning mayoral primary campaign of dark horse NYU Prof. Herb London. Better-known GOP candidates are former Amb. Ron Lauder and former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani. .. . Connecticut ex-Sen. Lowell Weicker will be George Washington U.’s first “Congressional Professor.”