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Significant breakdown of votes on Rehnquist nomination. All of Democratic Presidential hopefuls —including Scoop Jackson— voted against it. But many Senate liberals voted for Rehnquist, including Eagleton and Symington (Mo.), Stevenson (Ill.), Montoya (N.M.), Pastore and Pell (R.I.), McGee (Wyo.), Proxmire (Wise.) —Proxmire presumably because he has pulled out of Presidential race. Reason: many senators in the North and West getting anguished calls from constituents over disruptions resulting from court-ordered busing. The three Republicans who voted against Rehnquist were Brooke (Mass.), Case (N.J.), Javits (N.Y.). . . . Even opponents of confirmation unedified by Kennedy’s bringing up comparisons with Hitler and Mussolini in the Rehnquist debate (because Rehnquist was Ass’t Attorney General at time of Mayday riots). . . . Only four senators (a mixed bag) voted against extension of President’s economic controls to 1973: Goldwater, on the Right; on the Left, Proxmire, Harris (Okla.), Fulbright (Ark.) . . . The two Republicans who voted for the $1 political dues checkoff the Democrats want so badly were: Charles Mathias (Md.), Clifford Case (N.J.). . . . Fulton Lewis III points out that Robert Kennedy was opposed to any political dues checkoff plan on the grounds that it would “provide an extremely dangerous grant of power” to the heads of the national political parties (the kind of power that might have kept JFK from winning the 1960 nomination). Teddy is pro dues checkoff.

Much to-do over John Tunney’s endorsement of Edmund Muskie as indication Tunney’s good friend Edward Kennedy won’t enter the race. Joseph Alsop suggests that if Kennedy really wants to make that position clear, he endorse Muskie himself. . . . Don Gifford, former legislative aide to Ted Kennedy, will join Massachusetts Muskie operation. . . . Another possible Presidential candidate: Sen. Vance Hartke, who, come to think of it, has been making candidatorial noises ever since he got back to the Senate. Hartke has an advance team in New Hampshire now and an aide says: “Obviously, we are making contingency plans for that possibility.” . . . On Republican side, Richard Howard, who was executive director of the Nixon for President operation in New Hampshire two years ago, says if a conservative like John Ashbrook enters the primary he may take a hand in it—otherwise he’ll sit it out.

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Significant breakdown of votes on Rehnquist nomination. All of Democratic Presidential hopefuls —including Scoop Jackson— voted against it. But many Senate liberals voted for Rehnquist, including Eagleton and Symington (Mo.), Stevenson (Ill.), Montoya (N.M.), Pastore and Pell (R.I.), McGee (Wyo.), Proxmire (Wise.) —Proxmire presumably because he has pulled out of Presidential race. Reason: many senators in the North and West getting anguished calls from constituents over disruptions resulting from court-ordered busing. The three Republicans who voted against Rehnquist were Brooke (Mass.), Case (N.J.), Javits (N.Y.). . . . Even opponents of confirmation unedified by Kennedy’s bringing up comparisons with Hitler and Mussolini in the Rehnquist debate (because Rehnquist was Ass’t Attorney General at time of Mayday riots). . . . Only four senators (a mixed bag) voted against extension of President’s economic controls to 1973: Goldwater, on the Right; on the Left, Proxmire, Harris (Okla.), Fulbright (Ark.) . . . The two Republicans who voted for the $1 political dues checkoff the Democrats want so badly were: Charles Mathias (Md.), Clifford Case (N.J.). . . . Fulton Lewis III points out that Robert Kennedy was opposed to any political dues checkoff plan on the grounds that it would “provide an extremely dangerous grant of power” to the heads of the national political parties (the kind of power that might have kept JFK from winning the 1960 nomination). Teddy is pro dues checkoff.

Much to-do over John Tunney’s endorsement of Edmund Muskie as indication Tunney’s good friend Edward Kennedy won’t enter the race. Joseph Alsop suggests that if Kennedy really wants to make that position clear, he endorse Muskie himself. . . . Don Gifford, former legislative aide to Ted Kennedy, will join Massachusetts Muskie operation. . . . Another possible Presidential candidate: Sen. Vance Hartke, who, come to think of it, has been making candidatorial noises ever since he got back to the Senate. Hartke has an advance team in New Hampshire now and an aide says: “Obviously, we are making contingency plans for that possibility.” . . . On Republican side, Richard Howard, who was executive director of the Nixon for President operation in New Hampshire two years ago, says if a conservative like John Ashbrook enters the primary he may take a hand in it—otherwise he’ll sit it out.