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■ Carter’s plan to whip inflation now got more support from Jacob Javits than it did from a lukewarm Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, who promised his support but wouldn’t say whether he agreed with Carter’s prescription for voluntary wage-price controls. . . . ABC-Harris survey, on eve of Carter speech, showed that while those polled favored wage-price guidelines, 73 to 19 per cent, they didn’t think they would work. . . . Democratic Party leaders question the wisdom of making such a speech just two weeks before Election Day. “There is no question that it is a major issue but now people are blaming one side or the other,” a Democratic official told the Washington Post a few days prior to the speech. Bill Brock, Republican National Chairman, has made it clear that from now until November 7, GOP will try to pin inflation on Democratic donkey. Suspicion among Democrats is that Carter is willing to take a few defeats in 1978 in order to get ground-work laid for 1980.

■ O’Neill’s Massachusetts colleague, Ted Kennedy, continues to test Carter. Kennedy has called the $18.7-billion tax cut passed by Congress “the worst tax legislation approved by Congress since the days of Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon” and wants Carter to follow in the steps of FDR and HST, both of whom vetoed major tax legislation. Though tax bill is being labeled a boon to the special interests, National Journal notes that for most taxpayers the record cut “will not even offset the combined impact of inflation and social security tax increases” . . . Kemp-Roth, killed in House-Senate conference committee, will be back next year. Sen. Sam Nunn (D., Ga.), one of the sponsors of the bipartisan “Son of Kemp-Roth,” says the people are “going to demand that this amendment, at some point, become law.” . . . 1978 could be both year of conservatives and year of Democrats. In Christian Science Monitor interview, political analyst Seymour Martin Lipset says Democrats, not Republicans, are capitalizing on tax-revolt fever. The Democratic net now sweeps so wide, says Lipset, that a Democratic primary produces a candidate who more accurately reflects public mood, as in Massachusetts, where conservative Democrat Ed King beat Gov. Dukakis in recent primary. September 30 New Right Report devotes two pages to races all across country where Democrats, riding conservative issues, are ahead of their less conservative Republican opponents.

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■ Carter’s plan to whip inflation now got more support from Jacob Javits than it did from a lukewarm Majority Leader Tip O’Neill, who promised his support but wouldn’t say whether he agreed with Carter’s prescription for voluntary wage-price controls. . . . ABC-Harris survey, on eve of Carter speech, showed that while those polled favored wage-price guidelines, 73 to 19 per cent, they didn’t think they would work. . . . Democratic Party leaders question the wisdom of making such a speech just two weeks before Election Day. “There is no question that it is a major issue but now people are blaming one side or the other,” a Democratic official told the Washington Post a few days prior to the speech. Bill Brock, Republican National Chairman, has made it clear that from now until November 7, GOP will try to pin inflation on Democratic donkey. Suspicion among Democrats is that Carter is willing to take a few defeats in 1978 in order to get ground-work laid for 1980.

■ O’Neill’s Massachusetts colleague, Ted Kennedy, continues to test Carter. Kennedy has called the $18.7-billion tax cut passed by Congress “the worst tax legislation approved by Congress since the days of Calvin Coolidge and Andrew Mellon” and wants Carter to follow in the steps of FDR and HST, both of whom vetoed major tax legislation. Though tax bill is being labeled a boon to the special interests, National Journal notes that for most taxpayers the record cut “will not even offset the combined impact of inflation and social security tax increases” . . . Kemp-Roth, killed in House-Senate conference committee, will be back next year. Sen. Sam Nunn (D., Ga.), one of the sponsors of the bipartisan “Son of Kemp-Roth,” says the people are “going to demand that this amendment, at some point, become law.” . . . 1978 could be both year of conservatives and year of Democrats. In Christian Science Monitor interview, political analyst Seymour Martin Lipset says Democrats, not Republicans, are capitalizing on tax-revolt fever. The Democratic net now sweeps so wide, says Lipset, that a Democratic primary produces a candidate who more accurately reflects public mood, as in Massachusetts, where conservative Democrat Ed King beat Gov. Dukakis in recent primary. September 30 New Right Report devotes two pages to races all across country where Democrats, riding conservative issues, are ahead of their less conservative Republican opponents.