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A hotshot NYC public relations firm that handled Javits’ campaign in 1962 and Robert Kennedy’s in 1964 has moved into New Hampshire to get the stalled Eugene McCarthy campaign moving there. Reportedly the pr-people are donating their time; McCarthy’s followers will be expected to pick up the rest of the tab. Question: Is former client RFK involved in any way? . . . Out in California, Jesse Unruh, not a “Kennedy-Before-West-Virginia Man” by any stretch, putting the pressure on Bobby to declare in in ’68. Unruh says he’s waiting for word from Kennedy before deciding what Democratic candidate he’ll support in November—or more important still, in Chicago in August. . . . Ripon Society poll of its members came out as expected: they like Rockefeller the most and think he has the best chance to beat LBJ. However, Ripon members indicate they feel Richard Nixon will get the nomination. . . . Rockefeller caught in squeeze on Oregon. It might suit his purposes to have vigorous write-in campaign there, rather than declaring and stumping state, but —remember his ’64 slogan?—“He Cared Enough to Come to Oregon.”

How’s the state of the Left? On Feb. 10, the Peking-oriented National Guardian goes to a new and bigger format (sixteen pages instead of twelve, expanded news coverage, more columns) and changes its name to the Guardian (someone’s afraid the National Guardian could be confused with the National Guard). . . . On May 1, the old Communist Worker is scheduled to reappear as the Daily World (eight pages five days a week, a weekend twenty-page supplement) that will be the “Marxist [as opposed to Maoist] voice in America.” . . . William Patterson of Worker (now a bi-weekly) says it has raised $250,000 of the $1 million it needs to publish a daily. (This follows trend of British Worker which disappeared over a year ago and was resurrected as the Morning Star.) . . . Students for a Democratic Society also on upsurge, according to Newsday, which estimates its membership is up to 30,000 nationally, from 2,500 two years ago. . . . Greg Calvert, a national officer of SDS, says if his group succeeds in demonstrations it is now planning, “the President of the United States will not be able to campaign safely this year.” . . . SDS finds Eugene McCarthy too moderate for its taste; is shopping around for other peace candidate; no mention these days of Martin Luther King—Benjamin Spock ticket. . . . While Mayor Daley assures Democrats he won’t allow anti-LBJ demonstrators to disturb convention in August, Miami, where the Republicans will meet, is building six-foot-high divider around convention hall to keep out intruders.

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A hotshot NYC public relations firm that handled Javits’ campaign in 1962 and Robert Kennedy’s in 1964 has moved into New Hampshire to get the stalled Eugene McCarthy campaign moving there. Reportedly the pr-people are donating their time; McCarthy’s followers will be expected to pick up the rest of the tab. Question: Is former client RFK involved in any way? . . . Out in California, Jesse Unruh, not a “Kennedy-Before-West-Virginia Man” by any stretch, putting the pressure on Bobby to declare in in ’68. Unruh says he’s waiting for word from Kennedy before deciding what Democratic candidate he’ll support in November—or more important still, in Chicago in August. . . . Ripon Society poll of its members came out as expected: they like Rockefeller the most and think he has the best chance to beat LBJ. However, Ripon members indicate they feel Richard Nixon will get the nomination. . . . Rockefeller caught in squeeze on Oregon. It might suit his purposes to have vigorous write-in campaign there, rather than declaring and stumping state, but —remember his ’64 slogan?—“He Cared Enough to Come to Oregon.”

How’s the state of the Left? On Feb. 10, the Peking-oriented National Guardian goes to a new and bigger format (sixteen pages instead of twelve, expanded news coverage, more columns) and changes its name to the Guardian (someone’s afraid the National Guardian could be confused with the National Guard). . . . On May 1, the old Communist Worker is scheduled to reappear as the Daily World (eight pages five days a week, a weekend twenty-page supplement) that will be the “Marxist [as opposed to Maoist] voice in America.” . . . William Patterson of Worker (now a bi-weekly) says it has raised $250,000 of the $1 million it needs to publish a daily. (This follows trend of British Worker which disappeared over a year ago and was resurrected as the Morning Star.) . . . Students for a Democratic Society also on upsurge, according to Newsday, which estimates its membership is up to 30,000 nationally, from 2,500 two years ago. . . . Greg Calvert, a national officer of SDS, says if his group succeeds in demonstrations it is now planning, “the President of the United States will not be able to campaign safely this year.” . . . SDS finds Eugene McCarthy too moderate for its taste; is shopping around for other peace candidate; no mention these days of Martin Luther King—Benjamin Spock ticket. . . . While Mayor Daley assures Democrats he won’t allow anti-LBJ demonstrators to disturb convention in August, Miami, where the Republicans will meet, is building six-foot-high divider around convention hall to keep out intruders.