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Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan isn’t sure what Jimmy Carter can do about it, but he says “it’s beginning to be an open scandal in Washington that the Administration makes its decision on how will Senator Kennedy react” rather than on the merits of the case. … It was another bad week for the President with a rebellious House Democratic Caucus voting 153 to 82 against the President’s oil decontrol program. Among the rebels: Speaker Tip O’Neill and Majority Whip Jim Brademas. Only Majority Leader Jim Wright supported Carter—and Wright comes from oil-oriented Texas. . . . The well-informed Godfrey Sperling of the Christian Science Monitor points out that in one way Kennedy’s am-I-or-am-I-not-running game is helping Carter: it is keeping all other would-be contenders (except Jerry Brown—and no one seems to be scared of Jerry Brown) out of the field. Democrats all across the nation will withhold their support from other challengers, he says, until they see what Kennedy decides to do. . . . Meanwhile five Democratic congressmen headed by Richard Ottinger (N.Y.) have formed a formal Dump Carter movement. . . . Another anti-Carter group, Machinist President William Winpisinger’s National Committee for a Democratic Alternative, has not impressed Irwin Silber, political columnist for the radical Guardian. Its demands, as listed in a full-page New York Times ad last week, are, says Silber, “about as inspiring as a wad of used chewing gum.”

A survey of Republican political pros (in U.S. News) indicates they think the race has narrowed down to three men, Ronald Reagan, John Connally, and Howard Baker. . . . Gerald Ford thinks Reagan is well ahead at the moment but doubts that he “has it locked up.” . . . George Bush campaign director, James Baker, is plugging ahead. He says Bush has collected over $1 million and that he now has finance committees operating in 42 states.

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Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan isn’t sure what Jimmy Carter can do about it, but he says “it’s beginning to be an open scandal in Washington that the Administration makes its decision on how will Senator Kennedy react” rather than on the merits of the case. … It was another bad week for the President with a rebellious House Democratic Caucus voting 153 to 82 against the President’s oil decontrol program. Among the rebels: Speaker Tip O’Neill and Majority Whip Jim Brademas. Only Majority Leader Jim Wright supported Carter—and Wright comes from oil-oriented Texas. . . . The well-informed Godfrey Sperling of the Christian Science Monitor points out that in one way Kennedy’s am-I-or-am-I-not-running game is helping Carter: it is keeping all other would-be contenders (except Jerry Brown—and no one seems to be scared of Jerry Brown) out of the field. Democrats all across the nation will withhold their support from other challengers, he says, until they see what Kennedy decides to do. . . . Meanwhile five Democratic congressmen headed by Richard Ottinger (N.Y.) have formed a formal Dump Carter movement. . . . Another anti-Carter group, Machinist President William Winpisinger’s National Committee for a Democratic Alternative, has not impressed Irwin Silber, political columnist for the radical Guardian. Its demands, as listed in a full-page New York Times ad last week, are, says Silber, “about as inspiring as a wad of used chewing gum.”

A survey of Republican political pros (in U.S. News) indicates they think the race has narrowed down to three men, Ronald Reagan, John Connally, and Howard Baker. . . . Gerald Ford thinks Reagan is well ahead at the moment but doubts that he “has it locked up.” . . . George Bush campaign director, James Baker, is plugging ahead. He says Bush has collected over $1 million and that he now has finance committees operating in 42 states.