For the Record

The other big winner was Edward M. Kennedy. Consider. He worked as hard as he could for McGovern and for other Democratic candidates (a thing Mr. Nixon didn’t), his Massachusetts produced for McGovern, and—in the hurly-burly—the only other young Democrat on the scene with charisma, Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia), was knocked out of the race. . . . Come to think of it, so was John Kerry, another Kennedy type, the American Vet against the War, who had been expected to win Brad Morse’s House seat (Morse quit to take a job at the UN). But Kerry lost at last moment when the third man in the race, Roger Durkin (an independent), stepped out and threw his support to liberal Republican Paul Cronin. … In another important Massachusetts district liberal Father Robert Drinan won re-election. Drinan, incidentally, had bought a thousand of the Nader congressional profiles to use in his campaign as did liberal Democrat Philip Burton in California (Burton also won). … In other House races: Louise Day Hicks lost (redistricting), William Anderson, Nautilus-skip-per-turned-dove, lost in Tenn., black civil rights leader Andrew Young (D.), a former M. L. King aide, won in Ga., and Roger Hilsman, a doveish former Assistant Secretary of State under Dean Rusk, lost his first political bid in Connecticut. Republican Rep. Robert Steele won that one. . . . Rep. Ogden Reid, of the Herald Tribune family, a Republican turned Democrat in New York earlier this year, won handily despite intensive campaign to unseat him masterminded by Nelson Rockefeller. Already Reid is being talked of as possible gubernatorial candidate against Rocky next year which just might leave John Lindsay where he now is—out in the cold. . . . It was a shoo-in for John Ashbrook in Ohio, and for Nixon’s other Republican presidential opponent, Pete McCloskey, in California.

Liberal Republican senators, by and large, did well. Percy, Brooke, Hatfield and Case, all of whom had gotten important financial support from the leftliberal National Committee for an Effective Congress (Harry Ashmore, Stewart Mott, Henry Steele Commager are on the board), won easily, but Jack Miller and Gordon Allott who lost unexpectedly will both be missed by Republican conservatives. . . . Hale Boggs, the House Whip whose plane disappeared on a campaign flight in Alaska several weeks ago, was the first missing person to be elected to Congress and Congressman William Roy of Kansas (D), who is a doctor and a lawyer, became an Indian chief in the course of the campaign (honorary, Kickapoo tribe).

The other big winner was Edward M. Kennedy. Consider. He worked as hard as he could for McGovern and for other Democratic candidates (a thing Mr. Nixon didn’t), his Massachusetts produced for McGovern, and—in the hurly-burly—the only other young Democrat on the scene with charisma, Jay Rockefeller (West Virginia), was knocked out of the race. . . . Come to think of it, so was John Kerry, another Kennedy type, the American Vet against the War, who had been expected to win Brad Morse’s House seat (Morse quit to take a job at the UN). But Kerry lost at last moment when the third man in the race, Roger Durkin (an independent), stepped out and threw his support to liberal Republican Paul Cronin. … In another important Massachusetts district liberal Father Robert Drinan won re-election. Drinan, incidentally, had bought a thousand of the Nader congressional profiles to use in his campaign as did liberal Democrat Philip Burton in California (Burton also won). … In other House races: Louise Day Hicks lost (redistricting), William Anderson, Nautilus-skip-per-turned-dove, lost in Tenn., black civil rights leader Andrew Young (D.), a former M. L. King aide, won in Ga., and Roger Hilsman, a doveish former Assistant Secretary of State under Dean Rusk, lost his first political bid in Connecticut. Republican Rep. Robert Steele won that one. . . . Rep. Ogden Reid, of the Herald Tribune family, a Republican turned Democrat in New York earlier this year, won handily despite intensive campaign to unseat him masterminded by Nelson Rockefeller. Already Reid is being talked of as possible gubernatorial candidate against Rocky next year which just might leave John Lindsay where he now is—out in the cold. . . . It was a shoo-in for John Ashbrook in Ohio, and for Nixon’s other Republican presidential opponent, Pete McCloskey, in California.

Liberal Republican senators, by and large, did well. Percy, Brooke, Hatfield and Case, all of whom had gotten important financial support from the leftliberal National Committee for an Effective Congress (Harry Ashmore, Stewart Mott, Henry Steele Commager are on the board), won easily, but Jack Miller and Gordon Allott who lost unexpectedly will both be missed by Republican conservatives. . . . Hale Boggs, the House Whip whose plane disappeared on a campaign flight in Alaska several weeks ago, was the first missing person to be elected to Congress and Congressman William Roy of Kansas (D), who is a doctor and a lawyer, became an Indian chief in the course of the campaign (honorary, Kickapoo tribe).