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■ Gloria Steinem just hinted at it; Victor Reisel says it flat out: John Lindsay has decided to try for Democratic Presidential nomination in ’72. Reisel adds details on when the decision was made and who was in on it. Reisel’s column was followed in short order by a) Lindsay denial and b) Rockefeller statement that he hopes Lindsay will support him or at least remain neutral. If Lindsay switches, it’s because he’d rather have Democrat Arthur Goldberg in Albany than Republican Rockefeller, and he’d also like to have a friendly Goldberg heading the powerful NY delegation at the convention. . . . Meanwhile, and just in case, Kennedyites are moving into Goldberg camp: Brother-in-law Stephen Smith will mastermind his gubernatorial campaign, former Bobby aides Peter Fishbein and Peter Edelman will help him. . . . Moving up in Democratic Presidential race, dark horse Ramsey Clark, LBJ’s Attorney General who has straightened that out by opposing Cambodia, lambasting Spiro, visiting U.S. deserters in Sweden, splashily attending Jackson, Miss, funeral, bemoaning Kent State, joining a thousand NYC lawyers who journeyed to Washington to lobby for Cooper-Church amendment. . . . Amusing sidelight on that caper: Sen. John Williams (R., Del.) discovered that not a single lawyer in the delegation that urged him to vote for it had read the Cambodia pullout amendment (literal-minded Williams found this strange).

■ On the non-hysterical side: President Miller Upton of Beloit College (Wis.) in letter to Nixon after Cambodia/Kent State: “I have to concede that you have been more faithful in your leadership responsibilities than we in the academic world have been to ours.” . . . Teddy Kennedy about student rioters on recent NBC talk show: They’d be more effective if they went out and registered the blacks and worked for peace candidates. “Protest has become too easy in our society.” . . . Latest protests have spurred conservative activities on campuses: CounterPoint, the YAF magazine in Boston area, has put out several special issues; Logres is the brand-new publication of conservatives at Princeton; in Pennsylvania, the ACU has organized a state committee, which has brought out new PCU Sentinel. (Its No. 1 target in Vol. 1, No. 1 seems to be Minority Leader Hugh Scott). . . . You’ll never believe it, but there’s been a resignation of an important official in the Social Security Administration (SSA) because, says chief actuary Robert Meyers, he can no longer stand the way Democratic holdovers in the SSA are undermining the Nixon Administration. (The reason you won’t believe it is that you didn’t see it on front pages of NY Times and WashPost.)

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■ Gloria Steinem just hinted at it; Victor Reisel says it flat out: John Lindsay has decided to try for Democratic Presidential nomination in ’72. Reisel adds details on when the decision was made and who was in on it. Reisel’s column was followed in short order by a) Lindsay denial and b) Rockefeller statement that he hopes Lindsay will support him or at least remain neutral. If Lindsay switches, it’s because he’d rather have Democrat Arthur Goldberg in Albany than Republican Rockefeller, and he’d also like to have a friendly Goldberg heading the powerful NY delegation at the convention. . . . Meanwhile, and just in case, Kennedyites are moving into Goldberg camp: Brother-in-law Stephen Smith will mastermind his gubernatorial campaign, former Bobby aides Peter Fishbein and Peter Edelman will help him. . . . Moving up in Democratic Presidential race, dark horse Ramsey Clark, LBJ’s Attorney General who has straightened that out by opposing Cambodia, lambasting Spiro, visiting U.S. deserters in Sweden, splashily attending Jackson, Miss, funeral, bemoaning Kent State, joining a thousand NYC lawyers who journeyed to Washington to lobby for Cooper-Church amendment. . . . Amusing sidelight on that caper: Sen. John Williams (R., Del.) discovered that not a single lawyer in the delegation that urged him to vote for it had read the Cambodia pullout amendment (literal-minded Williams found this strange).

■ On the non-hysterical side: President Miller Upton of Beloit College (Wis.) in letter to Nixon after Cambodia/Kent State: “I have to concede that you have been more faithful in your leadership responsibilities than we in the academic world have been to ours.” . . . Teddy Kennedy about student rioters on recent NBC talk show: They’d be more effective if they went out and registered the blacks and worked for peace candidates. “Protest has become too easy in our society.” . . . Latest protests have spurred conservative activities on campuses: CounterPoint, the YAF magazine in Boston area, has put out several special issues; Logres is the brand-new publication of conservatives at Princeton; in Pennsylvania, the ACU has organized a state committee, which has brought out new PCU Sentinel. (Its No. 1 target in Vol. 1, No. 1 seems to be Minority Leader Hugh Scott). . . . You’ll never believe it, but there’s been a resignation of an important official in the Social Security Administration (SSA) because, says chief actuary Robert Meyers, he can no longer stand the way Democratic holdovers in the SSA are undermining the Nixon Administration. (The reason you won’t believe it is that you didn’t see it on front pages of NY Times and WashPost.)