For the Record

Good week for the good guys in Washington. It’s Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, an energetic supporter of Administration programs during the 91st Congress, as head of Republican National Committee, succeeding Rogers Morton, a moderate, over the objections of Hugh Scott. A clear win for conservatives…. And in the Senate, Marlow Cook of Kentucky, the liberal’s candidate for head of the powerful Senate Campaign Committee, has pulled out of the race leaving Peter Dominick of Colorado, a down-the-line conservative, as the only declared candidate for the post. (John Tower, present head of the Campaign Committee, is resigning. He’ll be running for re-election in 1972.)

Why did George McGovern enter Democratic Presidential race two years ahead? Probably because Edmund Muskie seemed to be building up too big a lead too fast. Certainly because if McGovern is to be serious contender he must raise important monies not only to fund his present campaign but to pay off debts (reputed close to $1 million) from his short term Presidential bid in 1968, after Robert Kennedy was assassinated…. Big asset: In the course of his campaign (with Sen. Mark Hatfield) to raise money to try to force through amendment that would end Vietnam war in ’71, and as head of “Campaign ’70”— to raise funds for liberal Democrats in 1970—McGovern is reported to have developed the most up-to-date list of liberal Democratic contributors in the land… Muskie aides, incidentally, are talking rather debonairely of raising $10 to $20 million for his ’72 campaign… ADA Chairman Joseph Duffey (who was not elected senator from Connecticut in November) is urging other ADA members not to take sides in Presidential campaign just yet: What the Party needs ifitisto defeat Richard Nixon and elect a “good liberal President,” says Duffey, “is unity.”… For a look at who are the really acceptable liberals, the list of speakers at the various ADA-sponsored Roosevelt Day Dinners (RDDs) this year: John Gilligan, new Governor of Illinois, Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, Joseph Duffey, UAW President Leonard Woodcock, and Sens. Harold Hughes and Birch Bayh.

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Good week for the good guys in Washington. It’s Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, an energetic supporter of Administration programs during the 91st Congress, as head of Republican National Committee, succeeding Rogers Morton, a moderate, over the objections of Hugh Scott. A clear win for conservatives…. And in the Senate, Marlow Cook of Kentucky, the liberal’s candidate for head of the powerful Senate Campaign Committee, has pulled out of the race leaving Peter Dominick of Colorado, a down-the-line conservative, as the only declared candidate for the post. (John Tower, present head of the Campaign Committee, is resigning. He’ll be running for re-election in 1972.)

Why did George McGovern enter Democratic Presidential race two years ahead? Probably because Edmund Muskie seemed to be building up too big a lead too fast. Certainly because if McGovern is to be serious contender he must raise important monies not only to fund his present campaign but to pay off debts (reputed close to $1 million) from his short term Presidential bid in 1968, after Robert Kennedy was assassinated…. Big asset: In the course of his campaign (with Sen. Mark Hatfield) to raise money to try to force through amendment that would end Vietnam war in ’71, and as head of “Campaign ’70”— to raise funds for liberal Democrats in 1970—McGovern is reported to have developed the most up-to-date list of liberal Democratic contributors in the land… Muskie aides, incidentally, are talking rather debonairely of raising $10 to $20 million for his ’72 campaign… ADA Chairman Joseph Duffey (who was not elected senator from Connecticut in November) is urging other ADA members not to take sides in Presidential campaign just yet: What the Party needs ifitisto defeat Richard Nixon and elect a “good liberal President,” says Duffey, “is unity.”… For a look at who are the really acceptable liberals, the list of speakers at the various ADA-sponsored Roosevelt Day Dinners (RDDs) this year: John Gilligan, new Governor of Illinois, Ramsey Clark, former Attorney General, Joseph Duffey, UAW President Leonard Woodcock, and Sens. Harold Hughes and Birch Bayh.