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About the time CBS gave Indiana to Johnson (on the basis of 6 per cent of the vote) the game started in earnest in Washington: Who now moves where? One certainty: Sec. of Defense McNamara will stay put. Willard Wirtz could move to Attorney General’s office if Lyndon Johnson decides against appointing the controversial Abe Fortas to that spot. Most other Kennedy hold-overs in the Cabinet believed en route out…. Also, going, the last of the Irish Mafia, Kenneth 0’Donnell and Larry 0’Brien. They moved out of White House in Sept. to help manage LBJ’s campaign and are understood to have received “attractive” offers from private industry (the Johnsonian equivalent of the Kremlin’s “sudden illness”)…. Bill Moyers, who took over Walter Jenkins’ duties several weeks back, said to be unhappy in present post and eager to return to 2 spot in the Peace Corps.

They’ll all of them be missed: New York’s staunchly conservative and anti-Communist congressman Steve Derounian and ditto ditto Congresswoman Katherine St. George…. In New Hampshire, Rep. Louis Wyman, on every Liberal blacklist since he prosecuted Willard Uphaus as state Attorney General some years back…. And Texas GOP congressmen Bruce Alger and Ed Foreman, whose defeat makes John Tower the only Texas Republican still in national politics…. Hairbreadth loss of up and coming Robert Taft in Ohio a major blow…. Surprise victory of Liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough over George Bush-attributed less to Yarborough’s popularity than to that old “deep in the heart of” feeling against “carpetbagger” Bush. Nowadays Texans wouldn’t consider Sam Houston a Texan.

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About the time CBS gave Indiana to Johnson (on the basis of 6 per cent of the vote) the game started in earnest in Washington: Who now moves where? One certainty: Sec. of Defense McNamara will stay put. Willard Wirtz could move to Attorney General’s office if Lyndon Johnson decides against appointing the controversial Abe Fortas to that spot. Most other Kennedy hold-overs in the Cabinet believed en route out…. Also, going, the last of the Irish Mafia, Kenneth 0’Donnell and Larry 0’Brien. They moved out of White House in Sept. to help manage LBJ’s campaign and are understood to have received “attractive” offers from private industry (the Johnsonian equivalent of the Kremlin’s “sudden illness”)…. Bill Moyers, who took over Walter Jenkins’ duties several weeks back, said to be unhappy in present post and eager to return to 2 spot in the Peace Corps.

They’ll all of them be missed: New York’s staunchly conservative and anti-Communist congressman Steve Derounian and ditto ditto Congresswoman Katherine St. George…. In New Hampshire, Rep. Louis Wyman, on every Liberal blacklist since he prosecuted Willard Uphaus as state Attorney General some years back…. And Texas GOP congressmen Bruce Alger and Ed Foreman, whose defeat makes John Tower the only Texas Republican still in national politics…. Hairbreadth loss of up and coming Robert Taft in Ohio a major blow…. Surprise victory of Liberal Senator Ralph Yarborough over George Bush-attributed less to Yarborough’s popularity than to that old “deep in the heart of” feeling against “carpetbagger” Bush. Nowadays Texans wouldn’t consider Sam Houston a Texan.