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Money not flowing in the way Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s backers felt it would. McCarthy estimates it will cost him $1 million to run in six primaries he says he’ll enter. One trouble, according to aides who disapprove his low-key approach to campaigning, is what they call McCarthy’s “passion gap.” . . . Only Californian Democratic congressmen to back McCarthy were two you would expect—George Brown (ADA—89 per cent; COPE—100 per cent) and Don Edwards (100—100), former ADA head. Edwards incidentally running into tough competition this year from ex-Marine Donald Sherwood, Republican conservative. . . . National Catholic Reporter threw its support to McCarthy last week, and called on Bobby Kennedy to “enlist” against the “immoral war” in Vietnam. . . . Kennedy being razzed on campuses for his failure to support McCarthy (some sample posters at Brooklyn College recently: “Bobby Bird”; “Bobby Charms While Lyndon Bombs,” etc.) . . . Now that Postmaster General Larry O’Brien says he’s willing to stand in for Johnson in Massachusetts primary against McCarthy, there’s all hell to pay. Boston politicos (Kenneth O’Donnell among them) figure the guy who makes the pitch for LB J in ’68 may get the nod for governor in ’70.

J. Wm. Fulbright, who usually dishes it out, got it in the kisser the other day from Congressman Joseph Resnick (D., N.Y.). Said Resnick, on his return from Vietnam: “I now have more first-hand knowledge of this area of the world than the entire Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . . Evidently Mr. Fulbright’s interpretation of foreign relations is to keep them as foreign as he possibly can.” Resnick is the one announced Democratic candidate for Sen. Javits’ seat in November. . . .Another possible candidate: Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, a Negro. Sutton’s plunge could hurt plans of New York peaceniks to run Allard (Mr. Dump Johnson) Lowenstein.

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Money not flowing in the way Sen. Eugene McCarthy’s backers felt it would. McCarthy estimates it will cost him $1 million to run in six primaries he says he’ll enter. One trouble, according to aides who disapprove his low-key approach to campaigning, is what they call McCarthy’s “passion gap.” . . . Only Californian Democratic congressmen to back McCarthy were two you would expect—George Brown (ADA—89 per cent; COPE—100 per cent) and Don Edwards (100—100), former ADA head. Edwards incidentally running into tough competition this year from ex-Marine Donald Sherwood, Republican conservative. . . . National Catholic Reporter threw its support to McCarthy last week, and called on Bobby Kennedy to “enlist” against the “immoral war” in Vietnam. . . . Kennedy being razzed on campuses for his failure to support McCarthy (some sample posters at Brooklyn College recently: “Bobby Bird”; “Bobby Charms While Lyndon Bombs,” etc.) . . . Now that Postmaster General Larry O’Brien says he’s willing to stand in for Johnson in Massachusetts primary against McCarthy, there’s all hell to pay. Boston politicos (Kenneth O’Donnell among them) figure the guy who makes the pitch for LB J in ’68 may get the nod for governor in ’70.

J. Wm. Fulbright, who usually dishes it out, got it in the kisser the other day from Congressman Joseph Resnick (D., N.Y.). Said Resnick, on his return from Vietnam: “I now have more first-hand knowledge of this area of the world than the entire Senate Foreign Relations Committee. . . . Evidently Mr. Fulbright’s interpretation of foreign relations is to keep them as foreign as he possibly can.” Resnick is the one announced Democratic candidate for Sen. Javits’ seat in November. . . .Another possible candidate: Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton, a Negro. Sutton’s plunge could hurt plans of New York peaceniks to run Allard (Mr. Dump Johnson) Lowenstein.