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McCarthy campaign staged what John Kenneth Galbraith described as “largest political happening in the history of politics” Aug. 15—simultaneous rallies and dinners in 72 cities. Object: raise $1 million badly needed for final weeks of campaign …. McCarthy incidentally spent nearly $1 million to win 61 delegates in New York primary…. …. Joseph L. Rauh of ADA — avid McCarthy man—says he will support HHH if Humphrey wins providing a) Humphrey doesn’t pick John Connally of Texas as running-mate, and b) Vietnam plank in Democratic convention is satisfactory. . . . Daily World (ex. Worker) appealing to supporters of “McCarthy, Sen. Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King to come to Chicago and say no to Hubert Humphrey.” World predicts 100,000 students will turn out (roundtrip bus fare from New York, $34) …. Tom Hayden of SDS is in charge of National Mobilization Committee in Chicago, plans to bring out special convention edition of Rat, the N.Y. underground paper, with a “Demonstrator’s Guide to Chicago,” including hundreds of possible targets for demonstrations…. Incidentally more than 230 telephone and TV cables have been sabotaged in Chicago since Illinois electrical workers went on strike in mid-May….. . Uproar in ranks of International Ladies Garment Workers Union over $2 bite the union takes for political purposes. ILGWU leadership is pro-Humphrey but McCarthy union members have put up such a stink that Daily World reports “business agents have been compelled to announce in a number of shops that the political donations are voluntary.”

Thruston Morton, about the biggest pre-convention Rockefeller booster, predicts Nixon win in November because “Hubert Humphrey is in a straitjacket that’s been built by this Administration in policies at home and abroad.” . . . Leftist press, still outraged at last-minute endorsement of Nixon by former Steelworkers President David McDonald, accuses McDonald of having made a deal to get a cabinet post in a Nixon Administration. . . . Alf Landon, who’s still all wrong—he predicted a Rockefeller victory-—-says this stuff about having Secret Service guards for Presidential candidates is nonsense: “[They should] mingle in the crowd as I did in 1936 and take their chances.”

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McCarthy campaign staged what John Kenneth Galbraith described as “largest political happening in the history of politics” Aug. 15—simultaneous rallies and dinners in 72 cities. Object: raise $1 million badly needed for final weeks of campaign …. McCarthy incidentally spent nearly $1 million to win 61 delegates in New York primary…. …. Joseph L. Rauh of ADA — avid McCarthy man—says he will support HHH if Humphrey wins providing a) Humphrey doesn’t pick John Connally of Texas as running-mate, and b) Vietnam plank in Democratic convention is satisfactory. . . . Daily World (ex. Worker) appealing to supporters of “McCarthy, Sen. Robert Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King to come to Chicago and say no to Hubert Humphrey.” World predicts 100,000 students will turn out (roundtrip bus fare from New York, $34) …. Tom Hayden of SDS is in charge of National Mobilization Committee in Chicago, plans to bring out special convention edition of Rat, the N.Y. underground paper, with a “Demonstrator’s Guide to Chicago,” including hundreds of possible targets for demonstrations…. Incidentally more than 230 telephone and TV cables have been sabotaged in Chicago since Illinois electrical workers went on strike in mid-May….. . Uproar in ranks of International Ladies Garment Workers Union over $2 bite the union takes for political purposes. ILGWU leadership is pro-Humphrey but McCarthy union members have put up such a stink that Daily World reports “business agents have been compelled to announce in a number of shops that the political donations are voluntary.”

Thruston Morton, about the biggest pre-convention Rockefeller booster, predicts Nixon win in November because “Hubert Humphrey is in a straitjacket that’s been built by this Administration in policies at home and abroad.” . . . Leftist press, still outraged at last-minute endorsement of Nixon by former Steelworkers President David McDonald, accuses McDonald of having made a deal to get a cabinet post in a Nixon Administration. . . . Alf Landon, who’s still all wrong—he predicted a Rockefeller victory-—-says this stuff about having Secret Service guards for Presidential candidates is nonsense: “[They should] mingle in the crowd as I did in 1936 and take their chances.”