• The press got it mixed up again—Senator Kennedy’s post-election day call on Vice President Nixon at Key Biscayne wasn’t to congratulate him for the campaign he had made; it was to thank him for it.
• Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa has a lot to learn from COPE and the AFL-CIO if he wants to be successful in the field of practical politics. Late last year, he announced plans to defeat 56 congressmen who voted for the Landrum-Griffin labor bill, and who had been elected by margins of less than 5 per cent in 1958. Five members of the “56 Club” did not run for re-election this year; one—Rep. Keith Thomson (R.-Wyo.)—was elected to the Senate; and another 40 club members won re-election, with the sole exception of Rep. Francis E. Dorn (R.-N.Y.). On the other hand, all five incumbent congressmen who received campaign contributions from the Teamsters this year also won re-election. Nobody, it seems, pays much attention to Mr. Hoffa.
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