For the Record

Dauntless Harold Stassen is doing it again: taking a poll which will (we predict) show that Richard Nixon cannot win Presidential election in November. . . . Stop-Nixon movements jolted by Senator Homer Capehart’s announcement he’s backing the Vice President, (Capehart was adamant Rockefeller man) . . . Lyndon Johnson intimates encouraged by West Virginia picture. They feel West Virginia will halt Kennedy bandwagon. • . . Big labor leaders (Meany, McDonald, some others) urging their followers not to back Humphrey too openly. Don’t want labor support to appear ineffectual in expected Humphrey eclipse.

Up for action in Hawaii State Legislature, bills to grant tax-exempt status to “any or all property owned by any bona fide labor union or non-profit corporation. ” Chief beneficiary if enacted: Harry Bridges’ Communist-leaning ILWU. . . . If a resolution for “nationalization” of Panama Canal is brought to the UN it will reportedly be couched in exact words of U.S. resolution on Suez Canal during that crisis. . . . Senator Olin Johnston (S.C.) suggests Monroe Doctrine be redefined to include subversive infiltration as well as open aggression. . . . Senate Banking Committee has approved House-passed bill to extend authority of Commerce Secretary to bar exports of strategic goods to Communist bloc nations.

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Dauntless Harold Stassen is doing it again: taking a poll which will (we predict) show that Richard Nixon cannot win Presidential election in November. . . . Stop-Nixon movements jolted by Senator Homer Capehart’s announcement he’s backing the Vice President, (Capehart was adamant Rockefeller man) . . . Lyndon Johnson intimates encouraged by West Virginia picture. They feel West Virginia will halt Kennedy bandwagon. • . . Big labor leaders (Meany, McDonald, some others) urging their followers not to back Humphrey too openly. Don’t want labor support to appear ineffectual in expected Humphrey eclipse.

Up for action in Hawaii State Legislature, bills to grant tax-exempt status to “any or all property owned by any bona fide labor union or non-profit corporation. ” Chief beneficiary if enacted: Harry Bridges’ Communist-leaning ILWU. . . . If a resolution for “nationalization” of Panama Canal is brought to the UN it will reportedly be couched in exact words of U.S. resolution on Suez Canal during that crisis. . . . Senator Olin Johnston (S.C.) suggests Monroe Doctrine be redefined to include subversive infiltration as well as open aggression. . . . Senate Banking Committee has approved House-passed bill to extend authority of Commerce Secretary to bar exports of strategic goods to Communist bloc nations.