For the Record

■ About the McGovern nomination. Playing it straight: The Newspaper Guild (33,000 strong) has endorsed the McGovern candidacy—the first presidential endorsement in forty years. In fact, it endorsed him before the Democrats did: The Guild’s executive committee was authorized to act on McGovern at a convention a week ahead of Miami Beach. . . . From here and there around the Old Guard: Frank Rizzo, Democratic mayor of Philadelphia, says he has a “standing order” for a ticket to Australia if McGovern wins. . . . In Chicago, Alderman Vito Mar- zulla will vote the Republican ticket this fall for the first time in his life. . . . Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 campaign chairman, Goodwin Chase of Washington, says only a McGovern defeat will save the Democratic Party, so he’s going Nixon in November. . . . Rep. Olin Teague of Texas, Number Three Democrat in the House, says McGovern candidacy may well cost Democrats control of the House next year. . . . “As of now,” wrote Evans and Novak July 16, “many labor leaders would honestly prefer four more years of RMN to eight years of George McGovern.” . . . Not such a hot idea: McGovern’s chief New York state strategist Richard Wade suggests they’ll set up a Republicans for McGovern committee in the state headed by—ex-Republicans John Lindsay and Rep. Ogden Reid.

■ Other Convention tidbits: Convention security cost $2 million—about $1,000 per demonstrator. . . . Jack Valenti, former LBJ aide, writing in Washington Post, commented that LBJ’s picture was absent (Democratic stars shown included FDR, Truman, Stevenson, JFK), summed it up: Lyndon Johnson was “a nonperson [at Miami] expunged from the Democratic Party with the same kind of scouring effectiveness that Marxist revisionists use to rewrite Communist history.” . . . Funniest sight of the week, Abbie Hoffman walking up to Sen. Vance Hartke, tape recorder in hand, introducing himself as correspondent of Popular Mechanics, interviewing him on what cars he liked. . . . Washington Post’s Sally Quinn reports at one time in the Fontainebleau lobby “Abbie Hoffman was covering Pete Hamill of New York magazine who was covering Teddy White who was covering the Convention.” . . . Commented one oldtime delegate after Taps: The new politics was carried out in smoke-filled rooms just like the old politics—“only the smoke smelled different.”

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■ About the McGovern nomination. Playing it straight: The Newspaper Guild (33,000 strong) has endorsed the McGovern candidacy—the first presidential endorsement in forty years. In fact, it endorsed him before the Democrats did: The Guild’s executive committee was authorized to act on McGovern at a convention a week ahead of Miami Beach. . . . From here and there around the Old Guard: Frank Rizzo, Democratic mayor of Philadelphia, says he has a “standing order” for a ticket to Australia if McGovern wins. . . . In Chicago, Alderman Vito Mar- zulla will vote the Republican ticket this fall for the first time in his life. . . . Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 campaign chairman, Goodwin Chase of Washington, says only a McGovern defeat will save the Democratic Party, so he’s going Nixon in November. . . . Rep. Olin Teague of Texas, Number Three Democrat in the House, says McGovern candidacy may well cost Democrats control of the House next year. . . . “As of now,” wrote Evans and Novak July 16, “many labor leaders would honestly prefer four more years of RMN to eight years of George McGovern.” . . . Not such a hot idea: McGovern’s chief New York state strategist Richard Wade suggests they’ll set up a Republicans for McGovern committee in the state headed by—ex-Republicans John Lindsay and Rep. Ogden Reid.

■ Other Convention tidbits: Convention security cost $2 million—about $1,000 per demonstrator. . . . Jack Valenti, former LBJ aide, writing in Washington Post, commented that LBJ’s picture was absent (Democratic stars shown included FDR, Truman, Stevenson, JFK), summed it up: Lyndon Johnson was “a nonperson [at Miami] expunged from the Democratic Party with the same kind of scouring effectiveness that Marxist revisionists use to rewrite Communist history.” . . . Funniest sight of the week, Abbie Hoffman walking up to Sen. Vance Hartke, tape recorder in hand, introducing himself as correspondent of Popular Mechanics, interviewing him on what cars he liked. . . . Washington Post’s Sally Quinn reports at one time in the Fontainebleau lobby “Abbie Hoffman was covering Pete Hamill of New York magazine who was covering Teddy White who was covering the Convention.” . . . Commented one oldtime delegate after Taps: The new politics was carried out in smoke-filled rooms just like the old politics—“only the smoke smelled different.”