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Senator Thruston Morton, GOP chairman, and Leonard Hall, veteran GOP campaign manager, told Nixon last week he would lose election if it were held now. Reason: Lukewarmness of conservative elements of Republican Party, most recently exasperated by Nixon’s sympathy for socializing medical aid for the aged . . . Despite this, only one man in America who doesn’t believe Nixon will get GOP nomination: Harold Stassen, of course …. Both Lyndon Johnson and Stuart Symington have considerable backing in West Virginia, but no sign yet they will throw their support to Humphrey in desperation stop-Kennedy move. . . . Kennedy’s stake major in West Virginia. If he can take a Protestant state against a Protestant opponent, it will do much to spike “Catholic- can’t win” talk.

Candidates for re-election positively clamoring for places on Jimmy Hoffa’s famous purge list. One prominent Democratic senator—who went down the line with labor- now quietly passing the word around that Hoffa wants him beaten. . . . Robert Nathan at ADA Political Workshop at Georgetown University described politics this way: “It is the art of getting votes from the poor, money from the rich, to protect each from the other.”. . . Senators Gore and Anderson furious at handling of latest Soviet nuclear ban “concession” by U.S. Representative Wadsworth. Gore says Wadsworth statement so phrased it gave impression Soviets had accepted certain provisos of our February 11 proposals.

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Senator Thruston Morton, GOP chairman, and Leonard Hall, veteran GOP campaign manager, told Nixon last week he would lose election if it were held now. Reason: Lukewarmness of conservative elements of Republican Party, most recently exasperated by Nixon’s sympathy for socializing medical aid for the aged . . . Despite this, only one man in America who doesn’t believe Nixon will get GOP nomination: Harold Stassen, of course …. Both Lyndon Johnson and Stuart Symington have considerable backing in West Virginia, but no sign yet they will throw their support to Humphrey in desperation stop-Kennedy move. . . . Kennedy’s stake major in West Virginia. If he can take a Protestant state against a Protestant opponent, it will do much to spike “Catholic- can’t win” talk.

Candidates for re-election positively clamoring for places on Jimmy Hoffa’s famous purge list. One prominent Democratic senator—who went down the line with labor- now quietly passing the word around that Hoffa wants him beaten. . . . Robert Nathan at ADA Political Workshop at Georgetown University described politics this way: “It is the art of getting votes from the poor, money from the rich, to protect each from the other.”. . . Senators Gore and Anderson furious at handling of latest Soviet nuclear ban “concession” by U.S. Representative Wadsworth. Gore says Wadsworth statement so phrased it gave impression Soviets had accepted certain provisos of our February 11 proposals.