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Same day, over national television (Issues and Answers, Face the Nation), Sen. Henry Jackson, Hawk, said he wouldn’t vote for SALT II because it wasn’t “verifiable”: what the Administration considers “adequately verifiable,” Jackson does not; and Sen. George McGovern, Dove, said he wouldn’t vote for it either because it will “encourage the arms race.” . . . Sen. Edward Kennedy says failure to ratify SALT II would be “a prescription for nuclear disaster.” . . . Sen. Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, agrees with Kennedy. In a U.S. News interview, Church said a vote against SALT would be “the worst setback since the Senate defeat of the Versailles Treaty.” But Church added that “there are not the votes in the Senate to ratify SALT. I can only hope the picture will change.” . . . John Connally, who is making a strong America one of his major planks, says calling off SALT might contribute more to world peace than concluding a treaty with the USSR.

“We’ve sort of excluded all the normal people from the Party. . . .” “I won’t discuss the other candidates [of my Party] . . . there’s nothing of interest there.” Thus, Sen. Lowell Weicker (R., Conn.) announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. But he did bring himself to discuss one of the other candidates after all—John Connally, whose very candidacy, said Lowell (Dale Carnegie) Weicker, “shows the bankruptcy of our Party.” . . . Rep. Robert Bauman, new chairman of the ACU, has no use for the Weickers of this world. “They [liberal Republicans],” says Bauman, “ought to be evicted because they are only Democrats in drag. We [the conservatives] have always been the Republican Party.” . . . Sen. Howard Baker— Bauman calls him “Panama Howie”— is urging that a committee of senior Republicans be set up to monitor the behavior of GOP presidential hopefuls following the inflamed series of articles on Philip Crane in Bill Loeb’s Manchester Union-Leader. Loeb claimed the sources for some of the stories were Reagan staffers. . . . Sen. Robert Dole—another ’80 hopeful—doesn’t like the idea. Candidates, he says, should control their own staffs.

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Same day, over national television (Issues and Answers, Face the Nation), Sen. Henry Jackson, Hawk, said he wouldn’t vote for SALT II because it wasn’t “verifiable”: what the Administration considers “adequately verifiable,” Jackson does not; and Sen. George McGovern, Dove, said he wouldn’t vote for it either because it will “encourage the arms race.” . . . Sen. Edward Kennedy says failure to ratify SALT II would be “a prescription for nuclear disaster.” . . . Sen. Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, agrees with Kennedy. In a U.S. News interview, Church said a vote against SALT would be “the worst setback since the Senate defeat of the Versailles Treaty.” But Church added that “there are not the votes in the Senate to ratify SALT. I can only hope the picture will change.” . . . John Connally, who is making a strong America one of his major planks, says calling off SALT might contribute more to world peace than concluding a treaty with the USSR.

“We’ve sort of excluded all the normal people from the Party. . . .” “I won’t discuss the other candidates [of my Party] . . . there’s nothing of interest there.” Thus, Sen. Lowell Weicker (R., Conn.) announcing his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. But he did bring himself to discuss one of the other candidates after all—John Connally, whose very candidacy, said Lowell (Dale Carnegie) Weicker, “shows the bankruptcy of our Party.” . . . Rep. Robert Bauman, new chairman of the ACU, has no use for the Weickers of this world. “They [liberal Republicans],” says Bauman, “ought to be evicted because they are only Democrats in drag. We [the conservatives] have always been the Republican Party.” . . . Sen. Howard Baker— Bauman calls him “Panama Howie”— is urging that a committee of senior Republicans be set up to monitor the behavior of GOP presidential hopefuls following the inflamed series of articles on Philip Crane in Bill Loeb’s Manchester Union-Leader. Loeb claimed the sources for some of the stories were Reagan staffers. . . . Sen. Robert Dole—another ’80 hopeful—doesn’t like the idea. Candidates, he says, should control their own staffs.