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Don’t be surprised to see Sen. Edmund Muskie end up as Senate Whip. Sen. Russell Long (La.), who now holds the job, has indicated he’d like to spend more time on Finance Committee affairs (he’s chairman) and Democrats are looking for ways to keep Muskie before the public. . . . Muskie incidentally continues to be for national conventions, even after Chicago, because they are only time fifty loosely allied state parties get together. . . . AFL-CIO COPE did it again: it put extra muscle behind races of fifty liberal Democratic congressmen in marginal areas; 44 of them made it. . . . Sen. George Murphy will be resigning as head of important Senate Republican Campaign Committee (he’ll be up for re-election in ‘70) which means that Barry Goldwater could get his old job back. Another possibility: John Tower of Texas. . . . Charles Goodell (R., N.Y.) working hard to make himself the most unpopular man on the Hill. He came out with antagonizing statement a week ago urging all newcomers to live in the District instead of in the suburbs.

Labor leaders, who worked hard for Humphrey in the clutch, have informed him they’ll back him if he decides to run in Minnesota gubernatorial or senatorial races in future. Officially they’d also support him in another Presidential bid, but their hearts really lie in Massachusetts. . . . Richard Nixon arrives in Washington knowing he’s not the most popular man in town: only 18 per cent of District residents voted for him. . . . According to Washington Post, scientists across the nation are putting pressure on Nixon not to appoint Nobel-prize-winning Willard Libby his “science advisor.” Libby’s crime: he headed Committee of Scientists and Engineers for both Goldwater and Nixon.

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Don’t be surprised to see Sen. Edmund Muskie end up as Senate Whip. Sen. Russell Long (La.), who now holds the job, has indicated he’d like to spend more time on Finance Committee affairs (he’s chairman) and Democrats are looking for ways to keep Muskie before the public. . . . Muskie incidentally continues to be for national conventions, even after Chicago, because they are only time fifty loosely allied state parties get together. . . . AFL-CIO COPE did it again: it put extra muscle behind races of fifty liberal Democratic congressmen in marginal areas; 44 of them made it. . . . Sen. George Murphy will be resigning as head of important Senate Republican Campaign Committee (he’ll be up for re-election in ‘70) which means that Barry Goldwater could get his old job back. Another possibility: John Tower of Texas. . . . Charles Goodell (R., N.Y.) working hard to make himself the most unpopular man on the Hill. He came out with antagonizing statement a week ago urging all newcomers to live in the District instead of in the suburbs.

Labor leaders, who worked hard for Humphrey in the clutch, have informed him they’ll back him if he decides to run in Minnesota gubernatorial or senatorial races in future. Officially they’d also support him in another Presidential bid, but their hearts really lie in Massachusetts. . . . Richard Nixon arrives in Washington knowing he’s not the most popular man in town: only 18 per cent of District residents voted for him. . . . According to Washington Post, scientists across the nation are putting pressure on Nixon not to appoint Nobel-prize-winning Willard Libby his “science advisor.” Libby’s crime: he headed Committee of Scientists and Engineers for both Goldwater and Nixon.