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■ It’s almost ’69 and the politicos are having at it in New York State. Will it be Arthur Goldberg (labor would support him), Stephen Smith (the big Kennedy revival?), or Robert Wagner (here come the old line Democrats) to run against John Lindsay? Everyone seems to think Lindsay can be beaten (but who wants the job?). Latest unofficial poll shows Lindsay’s popularity with rank-and-file New Yorkers at new low. . . . To add to Lindsay’s woes, says the Daily News’ astute Edward O’Neill, Lindsay and his liberal cohorts (but not friends) Jacob Javits and Nelson Rockefeller are in Outsville with the new Administration. Says O’Neill: “Nixon made up his cabinet without Advice or Consent of the big three Republicans of New York State” which served them right, and nothing “is what these three gents can expect to get from Washington in the next four years.”

. . . According to Victor Riesel, President Johnson never did intend to appoint Arthur Goldberg Chief Justice. He says story was a plant to make trouble between Nixon and LBJ.

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■ It’s almost ’69 and the politicos are having at it in New York State. Will it be Arthur Goldberg (labor would support him), Stephen Smith (the big Kennedy revival?), or Robert Wagner (here come the old line Democrats) to run against John Lindsay? Everyone seems to think Lindsay can be beaten (but who wants the job?). Latest unofficial poll shows Lindsay’s popularity with rank-and-file New Yorkers at new low. . . . To add to Lindsay’s woes, says the Daily News’ astute Edward O’Neill, Lindsay and his liberal cohorts (but not friends) Jacob Javits and Nelson Rockefeller are in Outsville with the new Administration. Says O’Neill: “Nixon made up his cabinet without Advice or Consent of the big three Republicans of New York State” which served them right, and nothing “is what these three gents can expect to get from Washington in the next four years.”

. . . According to Victor Riesel, President Johnson never did intend to appoint Arthur Goldberg Chief Justice. He says story was a plant to make trouble between Nixon and LBJ.