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Hubert Humphrey is conceding New York to McGovern. Says his aide, John Morrison: “We’re [going to] attempt to win between here and California and make California our major testing.” . . . Humphrey headquarters in Los Angeles, incidentally, now operating out of former Muskie campaign offices. … In two-man race, Humphrey v. McGovern, the pros are all for HHH according to a Gallup poll of Democratic county chairmen. It shows 48 per cent of them for Humphrey, only 19 for McGovern. In a wide-open race, the county chairmen are for Humphrey 27 per cent, Muskie 20, Jackson 14, Kennedy 13, McGovern 11, Wallace 9. . . . Between now and California comes Oregon and latest Portland Oregonian poll shows McGovern leading there with 35 per cent to 18 for HHH. . . . According to Fulton Lewis III, Alger Hiss is endorsing George McGovern. … A Christian Science Monitor story says McGovern Cabinet would probably include Sen. Frank Church (of the Cooper-Church bugout resolutions), Gen. James Gavin (also a bugout specialist), Abraham Ribicoff and Ramsey Clark. … No, says Harold Stassen, with dignity, he won’t be running this year. “When there is an incumbent President of my own party I never run.” . . . Cordial invitation by the Florida People’s Convention to the San Diego Convention Committee, which was planning to trash the GOP Convention in California, to join the fun in Miami Beach. And gratefully accepted too: “No matter where they [the Republicans] run, members of the San Diego Convention Committee and thousands of others will be in the streets.”

In California, John Ashbrook has gotten overwhelming endorsement of right-wing United Republicans of California by a vote of 519 to sixty. . . . In New York, hottest race of the year shaping up between superliberal Wm. Fitts Ryan and superliberal Bella Abzug (a race which she describes as giving New Yorkers a “chance to choose the greater of two goods”) . . . . On Abzug’s side, the Women’s Political Caucus and Citizens for Bella, who include Coretta King, Benjamin Spock, Harry Belafonte, David Schoenbrun, Robert Wagner and others. . . . On Ryan’s side the New American, organ of Michael Harrington’s Socialist Party, plus most of the columnists of N.Y. Post and Village Voice. Big losers bound to be Reform Democrats.

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Hubert Humphrey is conceding New York to McGovern. Says his aide, John Morrison: “We’re [going to] attempt to win between here and California and make California our major testing.” . . . Humphrey headquarters in Los Angeles, incidentally, now operating out of former Muskie campaign offices. … In two-man race, Humphrey v. McGovern, the pros are all for HHH according to a Gallup poll of Democratic county chairmen. It shows 48 per cent of them for Humphrey, only 19 for McGovern. In a wide-open race, the county chairmen are for Humphrey 27 per cent, Muskie 20, Jackson 14, Kennedy 13, McGovern 11, Wallace 9. . . . Between now and California comes Oregon and latest Portland Oregonian poll shows McGovern leading there with 35 per cent to 18 for HHH. . . . According to Fulton Lewis III, Alger Hiss is endorsing George McGovern. … A Christian Science Monitor story says McGovern Cabinet would probably include Sen. Frank Church (of the Cooper-Church bugout resolutions), Gen. James Gavin (also a bugout specialist), Abraham Ribicoff and Ramsey Clark. … No, says Harold Stassen, with dignity, he won’t be running this year. “When there is an incumbent President of my own party I never run.” . . . Cordial invitation by the Florida People’s Convention to the San Diego Convention Committee, which was planning to trash the GOP Convention in California, to join the fun in Miami Beach. And gratefully accepted too: “No matter where they [the Republicans] run, members of the San Diego Convention Committee and thousands of others will be in the streets.”

In California, John Ashbrook has gotten overwhelming endorsement of right-wing United Republicans of California by a vote of 519 to sixty. . . . In New York, hottest race of the year shaping up between superliberal Wm. Fitts Ryan and superliberal Bella Abzug (a race which she describes as giving New Yorkers a “chance to choose the greater of two goods”) . . . . On Abzug’s side, the Women’s Political Caucus and Citizens for Bella, who include Coretta King, Benjamin Spock, Harry Belafonte, David Schoenbrun, Robert Wagner and others. . . . On Ryan’s side the New American, organ of Michael Harrington’s Socialist Party, plus most of the columnists of N.Y. Post and Village Voice. Big losers bound to be Reform Democrats.