For the Record

Democrats haunted by the Spirit of ’68 were recently rattled by Eugene McCarthy’s little-publicized statement that he’s considering “running for President as a Democrat or leading a third-party movement.” . . . Especially upset was John Lindsay, who’s considering the same possibilities and counts heavily on taking the just-eighteen vote. But the latest Gallup poll shows McCarthy’s popularity still surprisingly high on campuses. Leading the battle of the Presidential contenders among the kids is John Lindsay. But McCarthy is just two percentage points behind, running ahead of Muskie, McGovern and Kennedy, in that order. . . . Question: If Kennedy is not a candidate as he says weekly he isn’t, why did he attend Larry O’Brien’s three-hour strategy session at the Sheraton-Park for Presidential candidates only? . . . Following Edmund Muskie, Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana made the obligatory pilgrimage to Israel. Shortly after Bayh came Sens. William Saxbe (R., Ohio) and Edward Gurney (R., Fla.). “We are not Presidential candidates,” announced the Senators. “I’m surprised,” said Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. “Everyone coming here these days seems to be one.”

Rep. Paul N. McCloskey (R., Cal.) aspires to become the Republican Allard Lowenstein of ’72 by leading a dump-the-President drive. McCloskey’s boosting Common Causer John Gardner and Senator Mark Hatfield (R., Ore.) as primary opponents for Richard Nixon, and at Stanford discussed the possibility of “impeachment.” Immediate result: aides of Rep. William Scherle (R., Iowa) kicked McCloskey off Young Republican discussion-group panel for “half-witted statements.” . . . Montana Republicans eyeing Cut Bank publisher Frank Whetstone as possible opponent for Democrat Senator Lee Metcalf. . . . Columnist David Broder, acting on rumors that Spiro Agnew may be dropped in ’72, nominates Treasury Secretary John Connally (now a Democrat). Connally, says Broder, “is moving to a place of power in the Nixon circle with a rapidity that has left life-long Republicans . . . gasping.”

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Democrats haunted by the Spirit of ’68 were recently rattled by Eugene McCarthy’s little-publicized statement that he’s considering “running for President as a Democrat or leading a third-party movement.” . . . Especially upset was John Lindsay, who’s considering the same possibilities and counts heavily on taking the just-eighteen vote. But the latest Gallup poll shows McCarthy’s popularity still surprisingly high on campuses. Leading the battle of the Presidential contenders among the kids is John Lindsay. But McCarthy is just two percentage points behind, running ahead of Muskie, McGovern and Kennedy, in that order. . . . Question: If Kennedy is not a candidate as he says weekly he isn’t, why did he attend Larry O’Brien’s three-hour strategy session at the Sheraton-Park for Presidential candidates only? . . . Following Edmund Muskie, Sen. Birch Bayh of Indiana made the obligatory pilgrimage to Israel. Shortly after Bayh came Sens. William Saxbe (R., Ohio) and Edward Gurney (R., Fla.). “We are not Presidential candidates,” announced the Senators. “I’m surprised,” said Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir. “Everyone coming here these days seems to be one.”

Rep. Paul N. McCloskey (R., Cal.) aspires to become the Republican Allard Lowenstein of ’72 by leading a dump-the-President drive. McCloskey’s boosting Common Causer John Gardner and Senator Mark Hatfield (R., Ore.) as primary opponents for Richard Nixon, and at Stanford discussed the possibility of “impeachment.” Immediate result: aides of Rep. William Scherle (R., Iowa) kicked McCloskey off Young Republican discussion-group panel for “half-witted statements.” . . . Montana Republicans eyeing Cut Bank publisher Frank Whetstone as possible opponent for Democrat Senator Lee Metcalf. . . . Columnist David Broder, acting on rumors that Spiro Agnew may be dropped in ’72, nominates Treasury Secretary John Connally (now a Democrat). Connally, says Broder, “is moving to a place of power in the Nixon circle with a rapidity that has left life-long Republicans . . . gasping.”