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For the Record

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Republican state leaders across the country are getting the word: the President’s brother (just tapped to accompany Nixon to Moscow next month) may be in the Rockefeller camp in 1960. •.. Democratic insiders in New Jersey insist that Governor Meyner, who can’t succeed himself, has been dealt out of the Senatorial race next year and must bargain for a spot on the national ticket, ifheisto stay alive politically. •.. Admiral Strauss isn’t the only whipping boy in the continuing battle over Oppenheimer. A pitched battle in a Southern college has just ended with the firing of a professor who was critical of Oppenheimer.

The New York hospital strike has state legislatures everywhere wrestling with laws to preclude similar emergencies…. Senate Democrats highly suspicious of continuing White House talk about an $80 billion budget next year. They think it ‘ s a campaign maneuver, that the 1961 budget will be pegged below the 1960 figure. •.. The drive to discredit the FBI and its director, J. Edgar Hoover, continues. One of the N.Y. Newspaper Guild Page One awards for journalism in magazines went to Fred Cook, for his blast against the FBI in the Nation….We’ve seen no answer to Rep. Walter’s charge that more than half the paintings and sculptures we are sending to Moscow for the fair are the work of artists with Communist or Communist-front affiliations.

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