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Of significance: During the early spring primaries Gerald Ford was out-drawing Ronald Reagan in financial contributions. But in April and May, all that changed. In April the Reagan campaign pulled in $2 million, in May $1.7 million, according to official figures. This means that in the crucial final two months of the campaign Reagan will also be getting larger matching funds from the Federal Government. Ford’s best month was March, when he received $1.6 million in campaign gifts…. The Ford camp was visibly staggered by Reagan’s smash victory in Missouri (he took 18 of 19 delegates). The best that campaign manager Rogers Morton could do in commenting about it to the press was: “I’m perfectly willing to recognize it’s going to be close.”. Meanwhile, Lou Harris reports the campaign has hurt Ford with the public, which now feels (by 48 to 33 per cent) that he is “too much a part of the Washington Establishment,” and by 64 to 19 per cent that “he is not very experienced in foreign affairs”—that unfavorable rating is up from 54 last October. But, surprisingly, Ford gets a positive rating (51 to 26 per cent) for “resisting pressures to dump Henry Kissinger.” Writing in the liberal Ripon Journal, liberal Sen. Jacob Javits urges all Republican “progressives, liberals, and moderates” to give “the highest priority” this summer to making sure that Ford gets the nomination in Kansas City…. Given the tightness of the race, Ford has now named Robert Griffin, the Republican Senate Whip, as his floor manager at the Convention, replacing John Tower of Texas, who will not be a delegate. Tower’s Establishment Republicans got flattened in the Texas primary by the Reagan steamroller…. Ladbroke’s, the big London bookmaker, is now citing even money that Jimmy Carter will be the next U.S. President. The odds are 6 to 4 that Gerald Ford will be, 7 to 2 that it will be Reagan.

Getting to know Jimmy Carter: The New York Times-CBS poll shows that Carter is coming across to the public as a conservative. Perception of him as a conservative rose from 10 per cent in February to 52 per cent in April…. Gallup says that 52 per cent of Carter’s supporters say they are on the right of the political spectrum, 26 per cent on the left, 11 per cent in the middle…. Carter himself, talking informally to reporters last week, told them that unlike LBJ he feels at home everywhere. Then he backed off a bit and added, “I don’t feel quite as much at home, say, with the [ideologically doctrinaire] ADA.”. Members of the Democratic Party Platform Committee were noticeably cool last week to AFL-CIO official Andrew Biemiller, who urged the Democrats to propose a legal 35-hour work week, double pay for overtime, and a $3 floor under wages…. The Christian Science Monitor, in an evaluation of Carter’s foreign policy, reports that his think tank is the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington, while Ronald Reagan’s is the staunchly anti-Communist Hoover Institution in Palo Alto…. A Jimmy Carter foreign policy advisor, Jerome Alan Cohen of Harvard, was in South Korea a fortnight ago, throwing his weight around generally, and warning that if Carter is elected he will take a much firmer stand than the present Administration on the issue of human rights (for South Koreans) Kevin Phillips warns Carter may be in trouble from the Democratic Left (the Udall-Church supporters) if Eugene McCarthy gets on the ballot in thirty or forty states, which is possible. A McCarthy ticket, says Phillips, would draw off what might be critical Carter votes in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific states.

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Of significance: During the early spring primaries Gerald Ford was out-drawing Ronald Reagan in financial contributions. But in April and May, all that changed. In April the Reagan campaign pulled in $2 million, in May $1.7 million, according to official figures. This means that in the crucial final two months of the campaign Reagan will also be getting larger matching funds from the Federal Government. Ford’s best month was March, when he received $1.6 million in campaign gifts…. The Ford camp was visibly staggered by Reagan’s smash victory in Missouri (he took 18 of 19 delegates). The best that campaign manager Rogers Morton could do in commenting about it to the press was: “I’m perfectly willing to recognize it’s going to be close.”. Meanwhile, Lou Harris reports the campaign has hurt Ford with the public, which now feels (by 48 to 33 per cent) that he is “too much a part of the Washington Establishment,” and by 64 to 19 per cent that “he is not very experienced in foreign affairs”—that unfavorable rating is up from 54 last October. But, surprisingly, Ford gets a positive rating (51 to 26 per cent) for “resisting pressures to dump Henry Kissinger.” Writing in the liberal Ripon Journal, liberal Sen. Jacob Javits urges all Republican “progressives, liberals, and moderates” to give “the highest priority” this summer to making sure that Ford gets the nomination in Kansas City…. Given the tightness of the race, Ford has now named Robert Griffin, the Republican Senate Whip, as his floor manager at the Convention, replacing John Tower of Texas, who will not be a delegate. Tower’s Establishment Republicans got flattened in the Texas primary by the Reagan steamroller…. Ladbroke’s, the big London bookmaker, is now citing even money that Jimmy Carter will be the next U.S. President. The odds are 6 to 4 that Gerald Ford will be, 7 to 2 that it will be Reagan.

Getting to know Jimmy Carter: The New York Times-CBS poll shows that Carter is coming across to the public as a conservative. Perception of him as a conservative rose from 10 per cent in February to 52 per cent in April…. Gallup says that 52 per cent of Carter’s supporters say they are on the right of the political spectrum, 26 per cent on the left, 11 per cent in the middle…. Carter himself, talking informally to reporters last week, told them that unlike LBJ he feels at home everywhere. Then he backed off a bit and added, “I don’t feel quite as much at home, say, with the [ideologically doctrinaire] ADA.”. Members of the Democratic Party Platform Committee were noticeably cool last week to AFL-CIO official Andrew Biemiller, who urged the Democrats to propose a legal 35-hour work week, double pay for overtime, and a $3 floor under wages…. The Christian Science Monitor, in an evaluation of Carter’s foreign policy, reports that his think tank is the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington, while Ronald Reagan’s is the staunchly anti-Communist Hoover Institution in Palo Alto…. A Jimmy Carter foreign policy advisor, Jerome Alan Cohen of Harvard, was in South Korea a fortnight ago, throwing his weight around generally, and warning that if Carter is elected he will take a much firmer stand than the present Administration on the issue of human rights (for South Koreans) Kevin Phillips warns Carter may be in trouble from the Democratic Left (the Udall-Church supporters) if Eugene McCarthy gets on the ballot in thirty or forty states, which is possible. A McCarthy ticket, says Phillips, would draw off what might be critical Carter votes in the Northeast, Midwest, and Pacific states.