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Well, what do you know: the American people think Congress is doing even worse than the President. A recent Gallup shows only 21 per cent of the people think the Congress is doing a good-to-excellent job, while 69 per cent think it is doing a fair-to-poor job. . . . Nelson Rockefeller, who says he won’t make a decision on whether to run for the Presidency until “late 1975” (talk about credibility gaps), now favors impeachment because “they [impeachment procedures] are the only thing that’s going to satisfy the American people.” . . . Human Events publisher Robert Kephart, clarifying stories that appeared in New York Times, Washington Post last week, says when he said he favored impeachment he was talking for himself, not for the editorial board of HE. … In the House, 101 of the 187 Republican congressmen have signed a letter to Mr. Nixon repudiating statements by prominent House Democrats (Majority Leader Thomas O’Neill and Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills) calling for Nixon’s resignation. … A Washington Post survey of the Senate found that any impeachment motion as of now would fail by at least 17 votes. Most Senate leaders felt that only about 35, but at most 50, senators were prepared now to vote Mr. Nixon’s ouster. . . . Bidding is hard and fast (and high) on Martha Mitchell’s forthcoming book, which Doubleday editor Tom Congdon describes as “a Gothic novel [whose] heroine is beset by sinister forces.”

Last year Teddy Kennedy joined in a Fourth of July rally honoring George Wallace (and everyone said it meant that Teddy had decided to run in 1976); this year Democratic Whip, Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), has accepted an invitation to attend a Wallace fundraising dinner (and everyone says it means Byrd wants a spot on the national ticket in ’76). . . . Wallace campaign aide Alton Dauphin confirms that Wallace has raised nearly $1 million to pay off campaign debts left over from 1972 (when his campaign was cut short by Arthur Bremer’s bullet) and to keep a national campaign staff going. (See “The Week.”) . . . Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.) toured Western campuses in February to gauge sentiment on a possible presidential bid; he wants to find out “what the country thinks of Howard Baker.” . . . Among the politicians who will not attend the annual Gridiron Dinner this year because the Club still bars women, are presidential contenders Charles Percy (R., Ill.) and Walter Mondale (D., Minn.).

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Well, what do you know: the American people think Congress is doing even worse than the President. A recent Gallup shows only 21 per cent of the people think the Congress is doing a good-to-excellent job, while 69 per cent think it is doing a fair-to-poor job. . . . Nelson Rockefeller, who says he won’t make a decision on whether to run for the Presidency until “late 1975” (talk about credibility gaps), now favors impeachment because “they [impeachment procedures] are the only thing that’s going to satisfy the American people.” . . . Human Events publisher Robert Kephart, clarifying stories that appeared in New York Times, Washington Post last week, says when he said he favored impeachment he was talking for himself, not for the editorial board of HE. … In the House, 101 of the 187 Republican congressmen have signed a letter to Mr. Nixon repudiating statements by prominent House Democrats (Majority Leader Thomas O’Neill and Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills) calling for Nixon’s resignation. … A Washington Post survey of the Senate found that any impeachment motion as of now would fail by at least 17 votes. Most Senate leaders felt that only about 35, but at most 50, senators were prepared now to vote Mr. Nixon’s ouster. . . . Bidding is hard and fast (and high) on Martha Mitchell’s forthcoming book, which Doubleday editor Tom Congdon describes as “a Gothic novel [whose] heroine is beset by sinister forces.”

Last year Teddy Kennedy joined in a Fourth of July rally honoring George Wallace (and everyone said it meant that Teddy had decided to run in 1976); this year Democratic Whip, Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.), has accepted an invitation to attend a Wallace fundraising dinner (and everyone says it means Byrd wants a spot on the national ticket in ’76). . . . Wallace campaign aide Alton Dauphin confirms that Wallace has raised nearly $1 million to pay off campaign debts left over from 1972 (when his campaign was cut short by Arthur Bremer’s bullet) and to keep a national campaign staff going. (See “The Week.”) . . . Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.) toured Western campuses in February to gauge sentiment on a possible presidential bid; he wants to find out “what the country thinks of Howard Baker.” . . . Among the politicians who will not attend the annual Gridiron Dinner this year because the Club still bars women, are presidential contenders Charles Percy (R., Ill.) and Walter Mondale (D., Minn.).