Day of decision for Nelson Rockefeller: March 22. That’s the last day he can file a disavowal statement and stay out of Oregon primary. It comes after New Hampshire (which could be death knell for George Romney), but before important Wisconsin and Nebraska primaries. . . . Latest polls show Richard Nixon running 3-1 ahead of Romney in N.H. David Broder of Washington Post quotes one dispirited Romney supporter in N.H. as saying “He [Romney] is running ahead of Harold Stassen.” . . . Situation confused by endorsement of Rockefeller-Reagan ticket last week by William Miller, Goldwater’s ’64 runningmate: odd since Rockefeller did not endorse Goldwater-Miller ticket in ’64. Could Miller (a former congressman) be wanting to get back into N.Y. State Republican politics? . . . Sen. Frank Carlson, who will retire from Senate this year, will be favorite son candidate in Kansas, he says. Carlson, who will undoubtedly get it, is conservative.
Latest from the Soul Brothers: Julian Lester of SNCC urges Negroes to make Lyndon Johnson afraid to leave the White House. Suggested tactics: spit on the President, throw rocks at his limousine, overturn it, strew the road with tacks, smash windows. Lester, incidentally, is regular columnist for National Guardian. . . . Twenty-seven Negro leaders have petitioned UN for “special membership” as a “permanent group of observers made up of black people living in America.” Among them: Julian Bond, H. Rap Brown, Stokely Carmichael, LeRoi Jones, Floyd McKissick, James Forman, William Epton.
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