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Sen. John Tower on the Republican Party, post-Nov.5:“It would be as difficult [moving the Republican Party left] as moving the Democratic Party right.” Dick Smith, head of the Young Republicans, agrees, says the GOP must remain conservative, and has blasted the Ripon Society for suggesting that the Republicans can win elections only by nominating liberals to office. Nov. 5 was, however, a disaster for House conservatives. Of the 36 Republicans who lost, 25 were members of the conservative Steering Committee, only one of the liberal Wednesday Club. New York Congressman Peter Peyser believes House Republicans need a more liberal chief than Minority Leader John Rhodes (Ariz.), but his move to oust Rhodes isn’t gaining much headway. Conservative Rep. Barber Conable (N.Y.) disagrees. “Why,” he asks, “fragment the fragment with a leadership fight?” Gentlemanly: retiring Democratic Sen-Alan Bible (Nev.) will resign early to give his Republican successor Paul Laxalt a seniority step-up in the Senate Class of ’74.

Ronald Reagan won’t be losing his platform when he moves out of Sacramento in January. He plans to syndicate a five-minute radio commentary five days a week and write a column. Another conservative to go into syndication (Universal Press Syndicate —that’s the outfit that syndicates Wm. A. Rusher, Garry Wills, and Jerry ter Horst) is NR contributor David Brud-noy. On the liberal side, New Republic announces that it will bring out a biweekly newsletter the Washington Spectator edited by Tristram Coffin in January. (Could that mean that New Republic itself may go biweekly a la NR and NR Bulletin formula?).Robert Sherrill (he wrote the blast on Chappaquiddick in the New York Times last summer) has signed with Punch Rothco

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Sen. John Tower on the Republican Party, post-Nov.5:“It would be as difficult [moving the Republican Party left] as moving the Democratic Party right.” Dick Smith, head of the Young Republicans, agrees, says the GOP must remain conservative, and has blasted the Ripon Society for suggesting that the Republicans can win elections only by nominating liberals to office. Nov. 5 was, however, a disaster for House conservatives. Of the 36 Republicans who lost, 25 were members of the conservative Steering Committee, only one of the liberal Wednesday Club. New York Congressman Peter Peyser believes House Republicans need a more liberal chief than Minority Leader John Rhodes (Ariz.), but his move to oust Rhodes isn’t gaining much headway. Conservative Rep. Barber Conable (N.Y.) disagrees. “Why,” he asks, “fragment the fragment with a leadership fight?” Gentlemanly: retiring Democratic Sen-Alan Bible (Nev.) will resign early to give his Republican successor Paul Laxalt a seniority step-up in the Senate Class of ’74.

Ronald Reagan won’t be losing his platform when he moves out of Sacramento in January. He plans to syndicate a five-minute radio commentary five days a week and write a column. Another conservative to go into syndication (Universal Press Syndicate —that’s the outfit that syndicates Wm. A. Rusher, Garry Wills, and Jerry ter Horst) is NR contributor David Brud-noy. On the liberal side, New Republic announces that it will bring out a biweekly newsletter the Washington Spectator edited by Tristram Coffin in January. (Could that mean that New Republic itself may go biweekly a la NR and NR Bulletin formula?).Robert Sherrill (he wrote the blast on Chappaquiddick in the New York Times last summer) has signed with Punch Rothco