For the Record

More fun and games: the National Peace Action Coalition which staged the April 24 activities in Washington is planning another wingding nationally for the weekend of July 4. . . . Latest figures are that the ten days—April 24 to May 5—cost the city of Washington and the Federal Government $5.5 million. . . . John Kerry, the Vietnam vet who made such a splash on national TV, is not a newcomer to politics; he was being groomed in Massachusetts to run for Congress as liberal Democrat but withdrew in favor of Father Robert Driman who made it; is now doing his level best to pull down House Internal Security Committee. . . . Mrs. Louise Day Hicks (scourge of Boston liberals) has been very quiet in first four months in Congress, but broke her silence last week: She urged her colleagues publicly to rebuke Reps. Ronald Dellums (D.. Cal.), Bella Abzug (D., N.Y.), Parren Mitchell (D., Md.), and Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) for addressing the peace demonstrators while standing under a Vietcong flag. . . . Only three Democrats among 25 senators who wrote President Nixon and Washington police chief Wilson praising their handling of demonstrators: Howard Cannon (Nev.), John Sparkman (Ala.) (a one-time Vice Presidential candidate), James Eastland (Miss).

Ups, Downs and Left-Behinds in Democratic Presidential race. Polls now put Kennedy above Muskie. . . . Muskie cuts back his campaign staff from 42 to 28—the moola just isn’t coming in, they say. . . . McGovern proves he’s the choice of the Kennedy White House guard, getting the endorsement of John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., yes, and Hans Morgenthau, also services of former Bobby Kennedy press aide Frank Mankiewicz, who’s taken a leave from column-writing for a year. . . . Hundreds of thousands of weighty McGovern letters (eight single-spaced pages) going out to general public in appeal for funds. . . . Everyone agrees that Birch Bayh and Harold Hughes bombed at big Milwaukee Democratic fund-raising dinner. . . . But Hughes signs on Washington lawyer Edward McDermott to key post on his staff. McDermott was the fellow who handled George McGovern’s eleventh-hour attempt to win nomination in Chicago in ’68. . . . On Republican side, Jack Wilson, a businessman in Redwood, California, has announced a “Dump McCloskey” Committee. Wilson says he’ll run in Republican primary against Congressman McCloskey next year. . . . Students at Whittier College have voted down resolution passed by student council urging that President Nixon be stripped of honorary law degree as punishment for his Vietnam policy.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

Georgetown University

More fun and games: the National Peace Action Coalition which staged the April 24 activities in Washington is planning another wingding nationally for the weekend of July 4. . . . Latest figures are that the ten days—April 24 to May 5—cost the city of Washington and the Federal Government $5.5 million. . . . John Kerry, the Vietnam vet who made such a splash on national TV, is not a newcomer to politics; he was being groomed in Massachusetts to run for Congress as liberal Democrat but withdrew in favor of Father Robert Driman who made it; is now doing his level best to pull down House Internal Security Committee. . . . Mrs. Louise Day Hicks (scourge of Boston liberals) has been very quiet in first four months in Congress, but broke her silence last week: She urged her colleagues publicly to rebuke Reps. Ronald Dellums (D.. Cal.), Bella Abzug (D., N.Y.), Parren Mitchell (D., Md.), and Charles Rangel (D., N.Y.) for addressing the peace demonstrators while standing under a Vietcong flag. . . . Only three Democrats among 25 senators who wrote President Nixon and Washington police chief Wilson praising their handling of demonstrators: Howard Cannon (Nev.), John Sparkman (Ala.) (a one-time Vice Presidential candidate), James Eastland (Miss).

Ups, Downs and Left-Behinds in Democratic Presidential race. Polls now put Kennedy above Muskie. . . . Muskie cuts back his campaign staff from 42 to 28—the moola just isn’t coming in, they say. . . . McGovern proves he’s the choice of the Kennedy White House guard, getting the endorsement of John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., yes, and Hans Morgenthau, also services of former Bobby Kennedy press aide Frank Mankiewicz, who’s taken a leave from column-writing for a year. . . . Hundreds of thousands of weighty McGovern letters (eight single-spaced pages) going out to general public in appeal for funds. . . . Everyone agrees that Birch Bayh and Harold Hughes bombed at big Milwaukee Democratic fund-raising dinner. . . . But Hughes signs on Washington lawyer Edward McDermott to key post on his staff. McDermott was the fellow who handled George McGovern’s eleventh-hour attempt to win nomination in Chicago in ’68. . . . On Republican side, Jack Wilson, a businessman in Redwood, California, has announced a “Dump McCloskey” Committee. Wilson says he’ll run in Republican primary against Congressman McCloskey next year. . . . Students at Whittier College have voted down resolution passed by student council urging that President Nixon be stripped of honorary law degree as punishment for his Vietnam policy.