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A mixed bouquet from ’72: George Meany got him a solid gold-plated hardhat from the Boy Scouts of America, celebrating the golden jubilee of Labor’s friendship with the Scouts. . . . Hitting the U.S. market, Mao-tai, China’s 112-proof vodka-like drink with which Richard Nixon and Chou En-lai plighted their troth. . . . The Maddox, one of the destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, is now patrolling the Taiwan Straights as part of Chiang Kaishek’s navy; it’s been renamed the Po-Yang. . . . Arthur Bremer, who always dreamed of making it big, has made it financially through the sale of his diary —of the two weeks before he shot George Wallace—to Harper’s Magazine. . . . Marilyn Monroe got shot down twice: once in Texas where a history textbook was ruled out because it devoted five pages to Marilyn, only one to George Washington; and in Los Angeles, where students of the James Monroe High School were restrained from renaming it the James and Marilyn Monroe HS. . . . With-it reporters at Camp David, where the lodges are called “Aspen,” “Laurel” and “Ash,” have put up a sign on the press trailer: “Poison Ivy.” . . . To everyone’s surprise that old favorite, water, remained America’s Number One favorite drink, with soft drinks second, milk third.

Significance of Teddy Kennedy’s conciliatory speech about Nixon at dinner in honor of McGovern foe, West Coast financier Eugene Wyman: It’s a turn toward center by Kennedy, a positioning for ’76. Kennedy, while doing his bit for McGovern during the campaign, will now move toward regaining the labor and Catholic vote that McGovern’s New Politics alienated. . . . Eugene McCarthy’s view of the McGovern defeat: It set back liberal movement for years and has given Nixon a freeer hand in dealing with the issues of war and peace. . . . Possible trouble for Ronald Reagan. John Veneman, number two man at HEW, has resigned, is expected to run for lieutenant governor in California in ’74. Veneman, a liberal Republican and a former California assemblyman, tangled with Reagan over welfare reform. . . . Left-wing press, stretching to the Communist World, mounting campaign against new Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. Front-page banner, Dec. 14: “Brennan Record Bared, Opposition Mounting.”

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A mixed bouquet from ’72: George Meany got him a solid gold-plated hardhat from the Boy Scouts of America, celebrating the golden jubilee of Labor’s friendship with the Scouts. . . . Hitting the U.S. market, Mao-tai, China’s 112-proof vodka-like drink with which Richard Nixon and Chou En-lai plighted their troth. . . . The Maddox, one of the destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin incident, is now patrolling the Taiwan Straights as part of Chiang Kaishek’s navy; it’s been renamed the Po-Yang. . . . Arthur Bremer, who always dreamed of making it big, has made it financially through the sale of his diary —of the two weeks before he shot George Wallace—to Harper’s Magazine. . . . Marilyn Monroe got shot down twice: once in Texas where a history textbook was ruled out because it devoted five pages to Marilyn, only one to George Washington; and in Los Angeles, where students of the James Monroe High School were restrained from renaming it the James and Marilyn Monroe HS. . . . With-it reporters at Camp David, where the lodges are called “Aspen,” “Laurel” and “Ash,” have put up a sign on the press trailer: “Poison Ivy.” . . . To everyone’s surprise that old favorite, water, remained America’s Number One favorite drink, with soft drinks second, milk third.

Significance of Teddy Kennedy’s conciliatory speech about Nixon at dinner in honor of McGovern foe, West Coast financier Eugene Wyman: It’s a turn toward center by Kennedy, a positioning for ’76. Kennedy, while doing his bit for McGovern during the campaign, will now move toward regaining the labor and Catholic vote that McGovern’s New Politics alienated. . . . Eugene McCarthy’s view of the McGovern defeat: It set back liberal movement for years and has given Nixon a freeer hand in dealing with the issues of war and peace. . . . Possible trouble for Ronald Reagan. John Veneman, number two man at HEW, has resigned, is expected to run for lieutenant governor in California in ’74. Veneman, a liberal Republican and a former California assemblyman, tangled with Reagan over welfare reform. . . . Left-wing press, stretching to the Communist World, mounting campaign against new Labor Secretary Peter Brennan. Front-page banner, Dec. 14: “Brennan Record Bared, Opposition Mounting.”