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■ Watch for a shift in tactics of peaceniks in ’70, from marches and Moratoria to politics. Sam Brown, coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, admits Nixon has “pulled a tremendous political coup by managing to identify himself with the cause of peace.” Brown has denounced demonstrators who resort to violence, says they should be arrested and “punished for their criminal activities”; says that he and other holdovers from the RFK and Clean Gene campaigns of ’68 now should concentrate on electing “dove” candidates in 1970. . . . John Kenneth Galbraith predicts the major issue of ’70 will be the size of the military establishment and that candidates will be elected or rejected on that issue. . . . According to Dr. Spock (who knows everything there is to know about babies) Richard Nixon’s popularity will be so low in ’72 (Spock estimates it will be down to 20 per cent by then) that he won’t even stand for re-election.

■ Now that Arthur Goldberg has taken himself out of the race in New York things are popping. Ted Sorensen (a law partner of Goldberg’s) will announce his candidacy for the Senate before January is out. . . . On the Republican side, Charles Goodell is markedly bouncier since the Goldberg fade (he’s the one I would have hated most to face, says Goodell). Goodell getting unexpected flak from upstate Democratic Representative Samuel Stratton who hints he may switch parties and oppose Goodell in the GOP primary. Stratton, who has blasted Goodell for most of his anti-Administration moves in recent months, says there’s not much future in the Democratic Party these days for political moderates.

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■ Watch for a shift in tactics of peaceniks in ’70, from marches and Moratoria to politics. Sam Brown, coordinator of the Vietnam Moratorium Committee, admits Nixon has “pulled a tremendous political coup by managing to identify himself with the cause of peace.” Brown has denounced demonstrators who resort to violence, says they should be arrested and “punished for their criminal activities”; says that he and other holdovers from the RFK and Clean Gene campaigns of ’68 now should concentrate on electing “dove” candidates in 1970. . . . John Kenneth Galbraith predicts the major issue of ’70 will be the size of the military establishment and that candidates will be elected or rejected on that issue. . . . According to Dr. Spock (who knows everything there is to know about babies) Richard Nixon’s popularity will be so low in ’72 (Spock estimates it will be down to 20 per cent by then) that he won’t even stand for re-election.

■ Now that Arthur Goldberg has taken himself out of the race in New York things are popping. Ted Sorensen (a law partner of Goldberg’s) will announce his candidacy for the Senate before January is out. . . . On the Republican side, Charles Goodell is markedly bouncier since the Goldberg fade (he’s the one I would have hated most to face, says Goodell). Goodell getting unexpected flak from upstate Democratic Representative Samuel Stratton who hints he may switch parties and oppose Goodell in the GOP primary. Stratton, who has blasted Goodell for most of his anti-Administration moves in recent months, says there’s not much future in the Democratic Party these days for political moderates.