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By Their Offices Shall Ye Know Their Intentions: Sen. Edward Muskie has had full-time office going off Capitol Hill for some time now (ten paid employees, plus volunteers), Sen. McGovern intends to set one up in next couple of weeks, Sens. Harold Hughes (D., Iowa) and Birch Bayh (D., Ind.) reportedly are looking for space. What’s the common denominator? 1972. . . . George Wallace’s Presidential ambitions rocked last week when Alabama Democratic leaders rammed through a loyalty oath provision that means, in effect, that there can’t be a Wallace-headed third party slate on the Alabama ballot in ’72. (Incidentally, one guy who didn’t get counted in the last census in Alabama, was George Wallace.) . . . No one much worried by selfstyled “New Party,” now headed by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Spock. Its purpose, say promoters, is to get “protest politics” going again and to support peace candidates already in the race—i.e., it won’t launch any new candidacies. . . . Behind the scenes in Arthur Goldberg’s headquarters in New York, savage in-fighting between Kennedy men (Peter Fishbein, Peter Edelman, Jerry Bruno) and other Goldberg staffers and aides. . . . Campaign not catching on, if polls are right. They show Goldberg, who was a light year or so ahead of Rockefeller in early spring, now only just ahead, at a time when Rockefeller money and Rockefeller campaign savvy should start to pay off. . . . Entry of Thomas Dodd, as independent in Conn. senatorial race could help Democrat Alphonsus Donahue in primary, say Democratic insiders.

Vote on D.C. Crime bill interesting: Of the Democrats who voted against it, (see Cato) and may court troubles back home from law-and-order elements, only Phil Hart of Michigan has hardish re-election campaign on his hands. (Kennedy and Muskie, who also voted nay are shoo-ins). Republican liberals who voted for the bill (deserting the Javits, Goodell, Brooke, Case, Cooper, Mathias, Packwood ranks for once) were Hatfield, Percy and Schweiker. . . . Robert Byrd (D., W. Va.) pointed out one reason so many liberals did go for tough Crime Bill: Washington is now #1 in crime among cities in the country of comparable size despite biggest police force. . . . Interesting sidelight, one of young Justice Dept, lawyers who helped draft the crime bill was Carl Rauh, son of ADA’s Joseph L. Jr.

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By Their Offices Shall Ye Know Their Intentions: Sen. Edward Muskie has had full-time office going off Capitol Hill for some time now (ten paid employees, plus volunteers), Sen. McGovern intends to set one up in next couple of weeks, Sens. Harold Hughes (D., Iowa) and Birch Bayh (D., Ind.) reportedly are looking for space. What’s the common denominator? 1972. . . . George Wallace’s Presidential ambitions rocked last week when Alabama Democratic leaders rammed through a loyalty oath provision that means, in effect, that there can’t be a Wallace-headed third party slate on the Alabama ballot in ’72. (Incidentally, one guy who didn’t get counted in the last census in Alabama, was George Wallace.) . . . No one much worried by selfstyled “New Party,” now headed by Gore Vidal and Benjamin Spock. Its purpose, say promoters, is to get “protest politics” going again and to support peace candidates already in the race—i.e., it won’t launch any new candidacies. . . . Behind the scenes in Arthur Goldberg’s headquarters in New York, savage in-fighting between Kennedy men (Peter Fishbein, Peter Edelman, Jerry Bruno) and other Goldberg staffers and aides. . . . Campaign not catching on, if polls are right. They show Goldberg, who was a light year or so ahead of Rockefeller in early spring, now only just ahead, at a time when Rockefeller money and Rockefeller campaign savvy should start to pay off. . . . Entry of Thomas Dodd, as independent in Conn. senatorial race could help Democrat Alphonsus Donahue in primary, say Democratic insiders.

Vote on D.C. Crime bill interesting: Of the Democrats who voted against it, (see Cato) and may court troubles back home from law-and-order elements, only Phil Hart of Michigan has hardish re-election campaign on his hands. (Kennedy and Muskie, who also voted nay are shoo-ins). Republican liberals who voted for the bill (deserting the Javits, Goodell, Brooke, Case, Cooper, Mathias, Packwood ranks for once) were Hatfield, Percy and Schweiker. . . . Robert Byrd (D., W. Va.) pointed out one reason so many liberals did go for tough Crime Bill: Washington is now #1 in crime among cities in the country of comparable size despite biggest police force. . . . Interesting sidelight, one of young Justice Dept, lawyers who helped draft the crime bill was Carl Rauh, son of ADA’s Joseph L. Jr.