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Too late to do any good, Edmund Muskie supported Harold Hughes for Chairman of Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee (regulars’ choice, black lawyer Patricia Harris, won in a walk). Result: Party leadership, big labor madashell at Muskie, but Hughes lieutenants will launch a Citizens for Muskie Committee in Iowa…Ace prognosticator Kevin Phillips says Muskie’s “doomed” if George Wallace enters Florida primary, William Proxmire runs in Wisconsin. Without big wins in those two early races, he’ll never make it…Indiana millionaire J. Irwin Miller (he financed Rockefeller for President Committee in 1968) will help John Lindsay raise funds; says he can bring in at least $4 million….Paul McCloskey says if he does “very poorly” in New Hampshire, he’ll forget the whole thing. He’s working hard; will spend 58 days there between now and March….Longtime Nixon friend Jack Shahane rumored starting new afternoon daily paper for NYC; has already built paper mill in Newfoundland, says insiders’ Gallagher Report. Paper, to bow by June 1972, would boost Nixon for re-election….But will conservatives? Poll by American Conservative Union shows 58 per cent of its members want to see conservative opposition to Nixon in primaries; 29 per cent say they’ll vote for him; 30 per cent won’t and a whopping 41 per cent are “undecided.” … At it again, Muskie’s mother: “I can’t see anything wrong with Nixon. I’m not sure I’d vote for Ed. If no one better is offered, I might vote for Ed but I really don’t want to see him as President.”

Around the Nation: Retirement of Idaho’s conservative Republican Sen. Len Jordan could put a liberal in the Senate: Ex-Governor Robert Smylie likely to get seat, unless conservatives wise up and rally behind one of his three opponents (Rep. James McClure, ex-Rep. George Hanse, ex-Gov. Don Samuelson). ….Former Rep. Robert T. Stafford (Vt.), appointed to fill Senate seat of late Winston Prouty, was once superhawk, now has ACU rating of 36 per cent….Assuming ailing Sen. Karl Mundt (R., S.D.) doesn’t run in ’72, top contenders to succeed him are conservative Robert Hirsch, liberal (he backed George McGovern for the Senate in ’68) Thomas Reardon.

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Too late to do any good, Edmund Muskie supported Harold Hughes for Chairman of Democratic National Convention Credentials Committee (regulars’ choice, black lawyer Patricia Harris, won in a walk). Result: Party leadership, big labor madashell at Muskie, but Hughes lieutenants will launch a Citizens for Muskie Committee in Iowa…Ace prognosticator Kevin Phillips says Muskie’s “doomed” if George Wallace enters Florida primary, William Proxmire runs in Wisconsin. Without big wins in those two early races, he’ll never make it…Indiana millionaire J. Irwin Miller (he financed Rockefeller for President Committee in 1968) will help John Lindsay raise funds; says he can bring in at least $4 million….Paul McCloskey says if he does “very poorly” in New Hampshire, he’ll forget the whole thing. He’s working hard; will spend 58 days there between now and March….Longtime Nixon friend Jack Shahane rumored starting new afternoon daily paper for NYC; has already built paper mill in Newfoundland, says insiders’ Gallagher Report. Paper, to bow by June 1972, would boost Nixon for re-election….But will conservatives? Poll by American Conservative Union shows 58 per cent of its members want to see conservative opposition to Nixon in primaries; 29 per cent say they’ll vote for him; 30 per cent won’t and a whopping 41 per cent are “undecided.” … At it again, Muskie’s mother: “I can’t see anything wrong with Nixon. I’m not sure I’d vote for Ed. If no one better is offered, I might vote for Ed but I really don’t want to see him as President.”

Around the Nation: Retirement of Idaho’s conservative Republican Sen. Len Jordan could put a liberal in the Senate: Ex-Governor Robert Smylie likely to get seat, unless conservatives wise up and rally behind one of his three opponents (Rep. James McClure, ex-Rep. George Hanse, ex-Gov. Don Samuelson). ….Former Rep. Robert T. Stafford (Vt.), appointed to fill Senate seat of late Winston Prouty, was once superhawk, now has ACU rating of 36 per cent….Assuming ailing Sen. Karl Mundt (R., S.D.) doesn’t run in ’72, top contenders to succeed him are conservative Robert Hirsch, liberal (he backed George McGovern for the Senate in ’68) Thomas Reardon.