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■ Credit for stunning reversal in House on the Cargo Preference Bill goes to liberal Republican Pete McCloskey, who spearheaded the counterattack, and conservative Bob Bauman, who jumped into the breach. When McCloskey failed to ask for a rollcall after House Speaker Tip O’Neill had announced that repeal had failed by voice vote, Bauman insisted on the rollcall which showed the bill had, in fact, been reversed by a vote of 257 to 165. . . . Also dead (at least for this session): Carter’s proposal for public financing of House elections. Chairman Frank Thompson of the House Administration Committee withdrew the bill after his Committee voted to extend the public financing to primary races too, in which form Thompson knew it would not pass the full House (what incumbent wants to help fund his primary opponent?). . . . Bad staff work is hurting Carter more than necessary with discontented supporters in Southwest. According to Evans & Novak, Gov. David Boren of Oklahoma, a big Carter booster early last year, who couldn’t get a phone call answered all spring and summer, heard from Carter in person only when Carter solicited his support for the Panama Treaty. . . . (Latest Gallup—early October—shows the same 46 per cent against the Treaty, with 36 per cent in favor, a drop of 3 per cent in the approval rate from early September.)

■ Is there a boomlet in the making? Kevin Phillips, Sept. 16: “A harder challenge [to President Carter’s renomination] could be mounted by Daniel Patrick Moynihan who would have the support of the Jewish lobby, the Jackson hardliners, organized labor, and the ethnic Catholics.” U.S. News, Oct. 17: “Friends of Pat Moynihan are urging the New Yorker to run in 1980 if Carter stumbles.” Evans & Novak (newsletter) Oct. 11 : “The revolt of moderate-to-conservative Democrats is brewing, with possibly Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a standard-bearer.” . . . And the Hearst papers have been predicting that the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, an organization of hardliners vis-à-vis the Soviet Union that Moynihan helped found, is preparing “to tackle Carter publicly.”

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■ Credit for stunning reversal in House on the Cargo Preference Bill goes to liberal Republican Pete McCloskey, who spearheaded the counterattack, and conservative Bob Bauman, who jumped into the breach. When McCloskey failed to ask for a rollcall after House Speaker Tip O’Neill had announced that repeal had failed by voice vote, Bauman insisted on the rollcall which showed the bill had, in fact, been reversed by a vote of 257 to 165. . . . Also dead (at least for this session): Carter’s proposal for public financing of House elections. Chairman Frank Thompson of the House Administration Committee withdrew the bill after his Committee voted to extend the public financing to primary races too, in which form Thompson knew it would not pass the full House (what incumbent wants to help fund his primary opponent?). . . . Bad staff work is hurting Carter more than necessary with discontented supporters in Southwest. According to Evans & Novak, Gov. David Boren of Oklahoma, a big Carter booster early last year, who couldn’t get a phone call answered all spring and summer, heard from Carter in person only when Carter solicited his support for the Panama Treaty. . . . (Latest Gallup—early October—shows the same 46 per cent against the Treaty, with 36 per cent in favor, a drop of 3 per cent in the approval rate from early September.)

■ Is there a boomlet in the making? Kevin Phillips, Sept. 16: “A harder challenge [to President Carter’s renomination] could be mounted by Daniel Patrick Moynihan who would have the support of the Jewish lobby, the Jackson hardliners, organized labor, and the ethnic Catholics.” U.S. News, Oct. 17: “Friends of Pat Moynihan are urging the New Yorker to run in 1980 if Carter stumbles.” Evans & Novak (newsletter) Oct. 11 : “The revolt of moderate-to-conservative Democrats is brewing, with possibly Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a standard-bearer.” . . . And the Hearst papers have been predicting that the Coalition for a Democratic Majority, an organization of hardliners vis-à-vis the Soviet Union that Moynihan helped found, is preparing “to tackle Carter publicly.”