For the Record

■ Is Teddy Kennedy’s old-line liberalism dead in the Democratic Party? David Broder, the astute Washington Post columnist, asks the question in a recent column and points to Sen. Paul Tsongas (D., Mass.—note the Mass.), keynoter at the ADA convention. Tsongas called on unions for greater productivity, called for tax credits for industry, told a startled assembly of aging, John Kenneth Galbraith, New-Deal/Fair-Deal types that attacking the big oil companies “is not the solution to the energy crisis.” . . . The same things showed up at the Democratic platform negotiations, where the Carterites, in the majority to be sure, carried the day. The Kennedy planks they voted down included: a job program to offset recession; a timetable for national health insurance, wage and price controls, controls on oil and gas prices. They approved draft registration. The only plank the Kennedyites won was for a phase-out of nuclear power. . . . While Carter continues to draw ahead of Kennedy, he’s in serious trouble against Reagan. Very latest poll (NYTimes/ CBS News) shows Reagan 47 per cent to Carter 37. Among registered voters it’s more lopsided, Reagan 49, Carter 36. In a three-way race it’s Reagan 41, Carter 30, John Anderson 18 per cent. Anderson seems stuck between 18 and 20 per cent in all the polls.

■ Anderson is getting the business from all directions. The Communist Daily World (which fears he’ll draw off votes from its superstars Gus Hall and Angela Davis) calls him a “clone” to Jimmy Carter. . . . The AFL-CIO COPE reminds union voters that on thirty issues it considered important in the past twenty years Anderson has voted “right” only once—the Voting Rights Act of 1965. . . . The Democratic National Committee has dug into Anderson’s voting record, reminds liberal Democrats and independents that he has voted for the B-1 bomber, the neutron bomb, against food-stamp extensions, for Kemp-Roth. . . . Moneybags Stewart Mott, who was booted out of the Anderson campaign, says he is in charge of Lepers for Anderson these days. . . . Media whiz David Garth says Mott was trying to bring in the gang that “ran [Eugene] McCarthy into the ground in 1976.” . . . And when New York Gov. Hugh Carey was asked whether he would be agreeable to an Anderson vice presidential nod, he replied: “I’ve got a good job and it pays more.”

■ Is Teddy Kennedy’s old-line liberalism dead in the Democratic Party? David Broder, the astute Washington Post columnist, asks the question in a recent column and points to Sen. Paul Tsongas (D., Mass.—note the Mass.), keynoter at the ADA convention. Tsongas called on unions for greater productivity, called for tax credits for industry, told a startled assembly of aging, John Kenneth Galbraith, New-Deal/Fair-Deal types that attacking the big oil companies “is not the solution to the energy crisis.” . . . The same things showed up at the Democratic platform negotiations, where the Carterites, in the majority to be sure, carried the day. The Kennedy planks they voted down included: a job program to offset recession; a timetable for national health insurance, wage and price controls, controls on oil and gas prices. They approved draft registration. The only plank the Kennedyites won was for a phase-out of nuclear power. . . . While Carter continues to draw ahead of Kennedy, he’s in serious trouble against Reagan. Very latest poll (NYTimes/ CBS News) shows Reagan 47 per cent to Carter 37. Among registered voters it’s more lopsided, Reagan 49, Carter 36. In a three-way race it’s Reagan 41, Carter 30, John Anderson 18 per cent. Anderson seems stuck between 18 and 20 per cent in all the polls.

■ Anderson is getting the business from all directions. The Communist Daily World (which fears he’ll draw off votes from its superstars Gus Hall and Angela Davis) calls him a “clone” to Jimmy Carter. . . . The AFL-CIO COPE reminds union voters that on thirty issues it considered important in the past twenty years Anderson has voted “right” only once—the Voting Rights Act of 1965. . . . The Democratic National Committee has dug into Anderson’s voting record, reminds liberal Democrats and independents that he has voted for the B-1 bomber, the neutron bomb, against food-stamp extensions, for Kemp-Roth. . . . Moneybags Stewart Mott, who was booted out of the Anderson campaign, says he is in charge of Lepers for Anderson these days. . . . Media whiz David Garth says Mott was trying to bring in the gang that “ran [Eugene] McCarthy into the ground in 1976.” . . . And when New York Gov. Hugh Carey was asked whether he would be agreeable to an Anderson vice presidential nod, he replied: “I’ve got a good job and it pays more.”