For the Record

The way of the world: Hubert Humphrey, in Russia on vacation, tried and failed to see Premier Kosygin, but hey presto, several days later (right after Chappaquiddick as a matter of fact) Russian officials had a change of heart and set up the meeting. . . . What they might have been considering was the current Polish and Czech embarrassment over their treatment of Citizen Richard Nixon several years back (Poland wouldn’t give Nixon a visa; Czech authorities snubbed him—and President Nixon visits Rumania) . . . . Daily World wondered editorially last week if “the hounds aren’t baying at him [Senator Kennedy] . . . because he has shown some sensitivity to the issue of mass hunger and the demands of the black people and other minority peoples.” . . . Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, agreeing with everyone that Kennedy shouldn’t run in 1972, added: “He is just as smart as his two brothers, and a better senator than either.” . . . Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, in Brazil a month or so ago, told Jornal do Brasil that Ted Kennedy “is better prepared to promote the revolution than his two brothers Robert and John Kennedy.” The only other American politician in a position to “promote the revolution which the people of the United States are now complaining about,” in Douglas’ opinion, was Sen. Edmund Muskie. . . . Another Douglas statement of interest: that the U.S. is making use of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the “same way that the USSR is utilizing the Warsaw Pact to intervene in Czechoslovakia.”

Accidental or intentional: That Sen. Eugene McCarthy scheduled his “I won’t run in Minnesota” press conference at the hour of the Apollo 11 splashdown? . . . Private polls in Minnesota had indicated that, in a primary, McCarthy would have lost to Hubert Humphrey anyway. . . . Five will get you ten that Edmund Muskie will be out beating for support on the hustings. Muskie spent several months traveling around earlier this year before concluding that Teddy had the nomination sewed up, which he announced to all.

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The way of the world: Hubert Humphrey, in Russia on vacation, tried and failed to see Premier Kosygin, but hey presto, several days later (right after Chappaquiddick as a matter of fact) Russian officials had a change of heart and set up the meeting. . . . What they might have been considering was the current Polish and Czech embarrassment over their treatment of Citizen Richard Nixon several years back (Poland wouldn’t give Nixon a visa; Czech authorities snubbed him—and President Nixon visits Rumania) . . . . Daily World wondered editorially last week if “the hounds aren’t baying at him [Senator Kennedy] . . . because he has shown some sensitivity to the issue of mass hunger and the demands of the black people and other minority peoples.” . . . Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, agreeing with everyone that Kennedy shouldn’t run in 1972, added: “He is just as smart as his two brothers, and a better senator than either.” . . . Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, in Brazil a month or so ago, told Jornal do Brasil that Ted Kennedy “is better prepared to promote the revolution than his two brothers Robert and John Kennedy.” The only other American politician in a position to “promote the revolution which the people of the United States are now complaining about,” in Douglas’ opinion, was Sen. Edmund Muskie. . . . Another Douglas statement of interest: that the U.S. is making use of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the “same way that the USSR is utilizing the Warsaw Pact to intervene in Czechoslovakia.”

Accidental or intentional: That Sen. Eugene McCarthy scheduled his “I won’t run in Minnesota” press conference at the hour of the Apollo 11 splashdown? . . . Private polls in Minnesota had indicated that, in a primary, McCarthy would have lost to Hubert Humphrey anyway. . . . Five will get you ten that Edmund Muskie will be out beating for support on the hustings. Muskie spent several months traveling around earlier this year before concluding that Teddy had the nomination sewed up, which he announced to all.