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Potshots from the Right at Richard Nixon. American Conservative Union, in its June Battle Line, comes out foursquare for renomination of Spiro Agnew for Vice Presidency but says it will not now come out for renomination of President Nixon because some of his policies have “bitterly disappointed” conservatives. . . . Young Americans for Freedom at the moment backing Ronald Reagan for President; its national chairman Ronald Docksai says a Reagan for President headquarters will be opened in Houston in the fall. . . . The Reagan v. Nixon theme also played up in June Forum of the liberal Republican Ripon Society—but for different motives. Ripon would like to make trouble for Nixon because it finds him too conservative. Says the Forum: “He [Reagan] appears to be preparing for a dramatic entrance onto the stage in what may be the last major performance of his career.” . . . Not sure whether he’s sorry or glad: New York’s junior Senator James Buckley, that his mail is outdrawing senior Senator Jacob Javits’: Buckley’s office reports between 1,200 and 1,500 letters a day, not only from New York State, but from most states in the Union. . . . Another junior legislator, California’s radical Ronald Dellums (D.) has reported to his constituents that he’s been busy too. He has, he says, introduced 35 pieces of legislation and co-sponsored an additional 63 in first hundred days in office. . . . Back home in San Mateo, a poll of businessmen shows Rep. Paul McCloskey not so popular. Sixty per cent criticized him, indicated they would prefer him to spend more time on their business and less running for President.

Scrapping over who owns the peace movement continues. Militant (Socialist Workers Party) deeply critical of Communist Party for sitting out the three months when April 24 was being plotted and then joining in only when it became apparent the demonstration was going to be a big one. Says the Militant: “The CP’s attitude toward all the other mass movements is determined by its support for liberal capitalist politicians in general and the Democratic Party in particular.” . . . Greater Boston Peace Action Committee reports it’s in a jam (of $1,400 dimensions) because lots of checks it received from SDS and Progressive Labor (Maoist) members were returned marked “insufficient funds.” One PL member told the Peace Committee he cancelled payment because their April 24 demonstration was “progovernment, not a peace rally.” . . . Socialist Workers Party, incidentally, is flourishing: last week announced opening of two new branch offices in New York City. . . . But some of the freaks are not. At Washington and Lee, Jerry Rubin, invited to address several thousand students, had an audience of only two to three hundred, and most of them wandered off in the course of his obscenities. . . . Same scenario at a Jane Fonda do a week earlier at Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. . . . One outgrowth of recent unprovoked attacks on New York policemen: legislation introduced into Congress by Sens. James Eastland (D., Miss.) and Richard Schweicker (R., Pa.) to make attacks on policemen and firemen a federal offense.

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Potshots from the Right at Richard Nixon. American Conservative Union, in its June Battle Line, comes out foursquare for renomination of Spiro Agnew for Vice Presidency but says it will not now come out for renomination of President Nixon because some of his policies have “bitterly disappointed” conservatives. . . . Young Americans for Freedom at the moment backing Ronald Reagan for President; its national chairman Ronald Docksai says a Reagan for President headquarters will be opened in Houston in the fall. . . . The Reagan v. Nixon theme also played up in June Forum of the liberal Republican Ripon Society—but for different motives. Ripon would like to make trouble for Nixon because it finds him too conservative. Says the Forum: “He [Reagan] appears to be preparing for a dramatic entrance onto the stage in what may be the last major performance of his career.” . . . Not sure whether he’s sorry or glad: New York’s junior Senator James Buckley, that his mail is outdrawing senior Senator Jacob Javits’: Buckley’s office reports between 1,200 and 1,500 letters a day, not only from New York State, but from most states in the Union. . . . Another junior legislator, California’s radical Ronald Dellums (D.) has reported to his constituents that he’s been busy too. He has, he says, introduced 35 pieces of legislation and co-sponsored an additional 63 in first hundred days in office. . . . Back home in San Mateo, a poll of businessmen shows Rep. Paul McCloskey not so popular. Sixty per cent criticized him, indicated they would prefer him to spend more time on their business and less running for President.

Scrapping over who owns the peace movement continues. Militant (Socialist Workers Party) deeply critical of Communist Party for sitting out the three months when April 24 was being plotted and then joining in only when it became apparent the demonstration was going to be a big one. Says the Militant: “The CP’s attitude toward all the other mass movements is determined by its support for liberal capitalist politicians in general and the Democratic Party in particular.” . . . Greater Boston Peace Action Committee reports it’s in a jam (of $1,400 dimensions) because lots of checks it received from SDS and Progressive Labor (Maoist) members were returned marked “insufficient funds.” One PL member told the Peace Committee he cancelled payment because their April 24 demonstration was “progovernment, not a peace rally.” . . . Socialist Workers Party, incidentally, is flourishing: last week announced opening of two new branch offices in New York City. . . . But some of the freaks are not. At Washington and Lee, Jerry Rubin, invited to address several thousand students, had an audience of only two to three hundred, and most of them wandered off in the course of his obscenities. . . . Same scenario at a Jane Fonda do a week earlier at Madison College, Harrisonburg, Va. . . . One outgrowth of recent unprovoked attacks on New York policemen: legislation introduced into Congress by Sens. James Eastland (D., Miss.) and Richard Schweicker (R., Pa.) to make attacks on policemen and firemen a federal offense.