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What will it mean in November ’74? Evans & Novak, in state-by-state rundown, conclude that Democrats may end up with three more Senate seats next year, which would mean a 60 to 40 breakdown in their favor. . . . More immediately, Republican politicos in Washington are watching by-election in Maryland Aug. 21 to fill the House seat of the late suicide, William Miller. Conservative State Senator Bob Bauman, former National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, running in a conservative Republican district, should win. If he doesn’t they’ll put it down to Watergate. . . . It’s very clear in Virginia where Democrat-turned-Republican Mills Godwin says, “Given the climate in Virginia as of this time, I don’t think it would be the thing to do.” The thing he is talking about is having Richard Nixon campaign for him for governor, but Godwin says he would have “no such difficulties” in welcoming a helping hand from Vice President Spiro Agnew. . . . Eighty per cent of out-of-staters approve Sen. Sam Ervin’s handling of the Watergate hearings, but mail from the people in North Carolina shows 40 per cent there disapprove. Ervin’s North Carolina colleague, conservative Jesse Helms, reports his mail is running 9 to 1 against the Committee hearings. (Helms, incidentally, also opposes schemes to have future elections paid for by the Treasury on the ground that “the people shouldn’t be required to finance their own misery.”) . . . New York Times reported the impeachment resolution submitted in the House last week by left-liberal Democratic Rep. Robert Drinan (a Jesuit priest) straight. Same day’s Washington Post story added that members of both Houses of Congress revealed “near unanimous belief that Drinan’s action was premature, that Congress should wait till all the findings from the Watergate investigation are in.” . . . House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, saddened that the advice of Mel Laird and Bryce Harlow wasn’t taken (they had urged the President to turn over the tapes to Committee and Prosecutor), says he thinks the President is “on good grounds legally [but that] politically it was not a good move.”

That Watergate break-in of Democratic National Committee a year ago has resulted in cutback of 25 per cent in staffers at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Slash decided on because of what National Chairman George Bush calls “a severe decline in contributions.” Another victim, RNC’s popular weekly Monday. Editor John Lofton, who is moving on to write a thrice-weekly column for United Features Syndicate, opposed the discontinuance: “At a time when things are going badly we ought to be slugging harder than ever.” . . . Here and there on Watergate: There’s a move on for the formation of a Committee for the Resignation of the President (CRESP). . . . Maxine Cheshire reports Jeb Stuart Magruder has gotten offer to make a television documentary entitled “An Evening with a Watergate Family.” . . . And the University of Chicago is scheduling a new course for the fall on Watergate.

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What will it mean in November ’74? Evans & Novak, in state-by-state rundown, conclude that Democrats may end up with three more Senate seats next year, which would mean a 60 to 40 breakdown in their favor. . . . More immediately, Republican politicos in Washington are watching by-election in Maryland Aug. 21 to fill the House seat of the late suicide, William Miller. Conservative State Senator Bob Bauman, former National Chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, running in a conservative Republican district, should win. If he doesn’t they’ll put it down to Watergate. . . . It’s very clear in Virginia where Democrat-turned-Republican Mills Godwin says, “Given the climate in Virginia as of this time, I don’t think it would be the thing to do.” The thing he is talking about is having Richard Nixon campaign for him for governor, but Godwin says he would have “no such difficulties” in welcoming a helping hand from Vice President Spiro Agnew. . . . Eighty per cent of out-of-staters approve Sen. Sam Ervin’s handling of the Watergate hearings, but mail from the people in North Carolina shows 40 per cent there disapprove. Ervin’s North Carolina colleague, conservative Jesse Helms, reports his mail is running 9 to 1 against the Committee hearings. (Helms, incidentally, also opposes schemes to have future elections paid for by the Treasury on the ground that “the people shouldn’t be required to finance their own misery.”) . . . New York Times reported the impeachment resolution submitted in the House last week by left-liberal Democratic Rep. Robert Drinan (a Jesuit priest) straight. Same day’s Washington Post story added that members of both Houses of Congress revealed “near unanimous belief that Drinan’s action was premature, that Congress should wait till all the findings from the Watergate investigation are in.” . . . House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, saddened that the advice of Mel Laird and Bryce Harlow wasn’t taken (they had urged the President to turn over the tapes to Committee and Prosecutor), says he thinks the President is “on good grounds legally [but that] politically it was not a good move.”

That Watergate break-in of Democratic National Committee a year ago has resulted in cutback of 25 per cent in staffers at Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington. Slash decided on because of what National Chairman George Bush calls “a severe decline in contributions.” Another victim, RNC’s popular weekly Monday. Editor John Lofton, who is moving on to write a thrice-weekly column for United Features Syndicate, opposed the discontinuance: “At a time when things are going badly we ought to be slugging harder than ever.” . . . Here and there on Watergate: There’s a move on for the formation of a Committee for the Resignation of the President (CRESP). . . . Maxine Cheshire reports Jeb Stuart Magruder has gotten offer to make a television documentary entitled “An Evening with a Watergate Family.” . . . And the University of Chicago is scheduling a new course for the fall on Watergate.