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■ Lots of pressure brought on Sen. Edward Brooke by liberal Republicans to get him to lead a GOP fight against confirmation of Carswell nomination. Brooke may end up voting against Carswell—he resisted the pressure to lead the revolt (as he resists most attempts to tie him exclusively to Negro gut issues). . . . Charles Goodell, who else?, was first Republican senator to attack the Carswell nomination. . . . Connecticut suburban constituents of Rep. Lowell Weicker wondering what he was doing voting to over-ride Richard Nixon’s veto of the HEW appropriations: could be heightened interest in running for governor now that John Dempsey has said he won’t run again; attempt to move leftward in a highly industrialized state. . . . Bad news for Rep. John Tunney and the Democratic Party in California: Rep. George Brown has entered senatorial race against George Murphy. Brown is half a league left of Tunney (no mean leftist himself); a hard primary fight between them could further split already fractured California party.

■ One reason for troubles of dropout Democratic National Chairman Sen. Fred Harris was that upon being appointed he moved fast left—toward the corner then occupied by Teddy Kennedy—and away from more conservative Democratic fatcats who could help Party get out of debt, but didn’t. Harris leaves the national office in near shambles. Successor will indicate relative strength in the Party of the Humphrey v. the Kennedy-McGovern-Muskie factions. . . . Astronaut James McDivitt has squelched rumors that he may run for the Senate in Michigan as a Republican. Republican field there (the race is against Phil Hart) still wide open; don’t discount possibility that George Romney might still be persuaded to take Hart on. … In Ohio, Rep. Chalmers Wylie (R.) thinks he’s got the Silent Majority message. Part of his reelection campaign has been to rent 22 billboards with pictures of the flag and the caption: “Back it! Don’t buck it.”

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■ Lots of pressure brought on Sen. Edward Brooke by liberal Republicans to get him to lead a GOP fight against confirmation of Carswell nomination. Brooke may end up voting against Carswell—he resisted the pressure to lead the revolt (as he resists most attempts to tie him exclusively to Negro gut issues). . . . Charles Goodell, who else?, was first Republican senator to attack the Carswell nomination. . . . Connecticut suburban constituents of Rep. Lowell Weicker wondering what he was doing voting to over-ride Richard Nixon’s veto of the HEW appropriations: could be heightened interest in running for governor now that John Dempsey has said he won’t run again; attempt to move leftward in a highly industrialized state. . . . Bad news for Rep. John Tunney and the Democratic Party in California: Rep. George Brown has entered senatorial race against George Murphy. Brown is half a league left of Tunney (no mean leftist himself); a hard primary fight between them could further split already fractured California party.

■ One reason for troubles of dropout Democratic National Chairman Sen. Fred Harris was that upon being appointed he moved fast left—toward the corner then occupied by Teddy Kennedy—and away from more conservative Democratic fatcats who could help Party get out of debt, but didn’t. Harris leaves the national office in near shambles. Successor will indicate relative strength in the Party of the Humphrey v. the Kennedy-McGovern-Muskie factions. . . . Astronaut James McDivitt has squelched rumors that he may run for the Senate in Michigan as a Republican. Republican field there (the race is against Phil Hart) still wide open; don’t discount possibility that George Romney might still be persuaded to take Hart on. … In Ohio, Rep. Chalmers Wylie (R.) thinks he’s got the Silent Majority message. Part of his reelection campaign has been to rent 22 billboards with pictures of the flag and the caption: “Back it! Don’t buck it.”