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Should he shouldn’t he? The Harris poll indicates for the first time that more than 50 per cent of the people —52 to be exact—want Richard Nixon to be removed from office, but the Gallup, published the same day, shows only 44 per cent want him out, a drop of four points since early May. . . . Another poll taken in California shows 51 per cent of the people think the media have given too much space/time to Watergate, 41 per cent think the media have treated Nixon unfairly. . . . Evans & Novak think the White House strategy of polarizing the Rodino committee along party lines is succeeding. They conclude that an impeachment vote in the committee along partisan lines will be a big help when the question reaches the House. . . . Mike Mansfield has gloomy news for his colleagues. If the House votes impeachment, says the Majority Leader, he will put the Senate on a six-day week. “One way or the other I want to see it completed this year.” . . . Sen. Walter Mondale, who is running hard but not so effectively for the Democratic nomination in 1976, predicts that Nixon will veto the liberal Legal Services Corporation bill “to placate those whom he may need later this year should an impeachment trial occur.”

In the Democratic presidential sweepstakes: Hubert Humphrey, who had been more or less ostracized by radical chic types back in 1968, has just received the AFL-CIO COPE’s highest award for never voting “wrong” on a single issue selected by COPE from the time he entered the Senate in 1949 to his nomination for the Vice Presidency in 1964.Lots of controversy in influential black circles over Negro Mayor Charles Evers’ endorsement of George Wallace as a vice presidential candidate in 1976. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a former Martin Luther King associate, says Evers is wrong, that Wallace has not changed, and that blacks should organize to stop a Wallace candidacy. . . . Hardliner Sen. Henry Jackson has accepted an invitation to visit Mainland China early in July where the Communist World is certain he will plot anti-detente with the “Chinese anti-Sovietists.” … In other races this year: the August primary will see Alaska’s only three governors ever in a crowded field. Incumbent William Egan will run in the Democratic primary and former Republican Govs. Walter Hickel and Keith Miller will be in the GOP race. . . . Mark Gartley, a former POW who was released to. antiwar activists in 1972, and whose mother was active in the antiwar movement, has won the Democratic primary in Maine to run against liberal Republican congressman William S. Cohen (the most anti-Nixon Republican on the Judiciary Committee). Gartley has said no thanks to incumbent Cohen’s suggestion that they suspend all campaigning until October 1. That suggestion, says Gartley, “seems a bit one-sided.” An early Boston Globe poll shows liberal Republican Gov. Francis Sargent trailing his Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis 36 per cent to 50 per cent, which may be why Sargent no longer supports the Massachusetts school busing law. He would like to replace it, he says, with freedom of choice legislation. And in New York, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark is, if you please, suing the Liberal Party, for not endorsing him. The Liberals, as usual, endorsed Jacob Javits.

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Should he shouldn’t he? The Harris poll indicates for the first time that more than 50 per cent of the people —52 to be exact—want Richard Nixon to be removed from office, but the Gallup, published the same day, shows only 44 per cent want him out, a drop of four points since early May. . . . Another poll taken in California shows 51 per cent of the people think the media have given too much space/time to Watergate, 41 per cent think the media have treated Nixon unfairly. . . . Evans & Novak think the White House strategy of polarizing the Rodino committee along party lines is succeeding. They conclude that an impeachment vote in the committee along partisan lines will be a big help when the question reaches the House. . . . Mike Mansfield has gloomy news for his colleagues. If the House votes impeachment, says the Majority Leader, he will put the Senate on a six-day week. “One way or the other I want to see it completed this year.” . . . Sen. Walter Mondale, who is running hard but not so effectively for the Democratic nomination in 1976, predicts that Nixon will veto the liberal Legal Services Corporation bill “to placate those whom he may need later this year should an impeachment trial occur.”

In the Democratic presidential sweepstakes: Hubert Humphrey, who had been more or less ostracized by radical chic types back in 1968, has just received the AFL-CIO COPE’s highest award for never voting “wrong” on a single issue selected by COPE from the time he entered the Senate in 1949 to his nomination for the Vice Presidency in 1964.Lots of controversy in influential black circles over Negro Mayor Charles Evers’ endorsement of George Wallace as a vice presidential candidate in 1976. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a former Martin Luther King associate, says Evers is wrong, that Wallace has not changed, and that blacks should organize to stop a Wallace candidacy. . . . Hardliner Sen. Henry Jackson has accepted an invitation to visit Mainland China early in July where the Communist World is certain he will plot anti-detente with the “Chinese anti-Sovietists.” … In other races this year: the August primary will see Alaska’s only three governors ever in a crowded field. Incumbent William Egan will run in the Democratic primary and former Republican Govs. Walter Hickel and Keith Miller will be in the GOP race. . . . Mark Gartley, a former POW who was released to. antiwar activists in 1972, and whose mother was active in the antiwar movement, has won the Democratic primary in Maine to run against liberal Republican congressman William S. Cohen (the most anti-Nixon Republican on the Judiciary Committee). Gartley has said no thanks to incumbent Cohen’s suggestion that they suspend all campaigning until October 1. That suggestion, says Gartley, “seems a bit one-sided.” An early Boston Globe poll shows liberal Republican Gov. Francis Sargent trailing his Democratic opponent Michael Dukakis 36 per cent to 50 per cent, which may be why Sargent no longer supports the Massachusetts school busing law. He would like to replace it, he says, with freedom of choice legislation. And in New York, former Attorney General Ramsey Clark is, if you please, suing the Liberal Party, for not endorsing him. The Liberals, as usual, endorsed Jacob Javits.