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Roper has come up with two polls the White House won’t like. 1) On Soviet troops in Cuba, 46 per cent of Americans think it “essential” they be removed, and 27 per cent more think it “desirable”—73 per cent in all. And 2) (and more disheartening) last November 42 per cent of Americans wanted SALT ratified (as against 20 per cent opposed). The figures are 39 per cent opposed, to 30 per cent in favor today, after 11 months of the hard sell. . . . According to Alan Baron, Carter is confident that he can keep a number of prominent blacks in his camp: Coretta King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., Mayors Coleman Young of Detroit and Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, and Andrew Young. These, say Baron, could assure Carter of “at least half” the black vote. . . . Carter got a boost last week with endorsement of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D., Tex.), who likes Carter’s approval of a higher defense budget and the decontrol of domestic oil and gas. . . . Ambassador Patrick Lucey (to Mexico) resigned quietly last week. Hamilton Jördan has an important job for Lucey, the former Democratic governor of Wisconsin, in the Carter presidential campaign. . . . Not everything is going Teddy’s way. A Boston Globe poll shows than when voters are reminded of Chappaquiddick in a Kennedy v. Carter match, Kennedy loses five points; when they are reminded of Teddy’s high-spending inflationary programs, his vote falls 12 points. . . . Another problem, according to Evans & Novak, is that the people running the draft-Kennedy movements around the country are not the people Kennedy would have chosen for the job. Problem: How to dump them, gracefully, when the time comes. . . . Will Lady Bird Johnson support Kennedy? Human Events says no, pointing to the insults the Kennedys dumped on LBJ while he was Veep. Her candidate, says HE, could be LBJ’s old protégé, John Connally. . . . The very end: A Sindlinger poll shows Jimmy Carter just barely edging out Richard Nixon in popularity: Carter beats Nixon 51.3 per cent to 48.7 per cent.

Is Jane Fonda just a soppy liberal or is she worse? New America, the organ of the Social Democrats, quotes her (in a speech at Michigan State University some years back) as saying: “I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become Communists.” When she arrived in Hanoi in 1972, says New America, she said: “I come to Vietnam as a comrade.” . . . Should know better. Rev. William Sloane Coffin (former Yale chaplain), who led a U.S. peace and anti-nuclear delegation to Moscow, has returned, is converted: “The Soviet government is very serious about stopping and reversing the arms race.” “The issue of Russian troops in Cuba is definitely trumped up. It’s a shameful use of the taxpayers’ money.” And (so’s your aunt tilly dept.) to the charge, “You can’t trust the Russians,” Coffin replies: “Can you trust the Americans?” . . . The radicalization of the women’s movement continues apace with NOW (National Organization of Women) President Eleanor Smeal going around making statements like: “We’re all fighting the same opponents, J. P. Stevens, Winn-Dixie, right-to-work, and those against civil rights,” and “We’re going to stop the right wing from exploiting women’s issues, once and for all. They’re going to wish they never took us on.”

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Roper has come up with two polls the White House won’t like. 1) On Soviet troops in Cuba, 46 per cent of Americans think it “essential” they be removed, and 27 per cent more think it “desirable”—73 per cent in all. And 2) (and more disheartening) last November 42 per cent of Americans wanted SALT ratified (as against 20 per cent opposed). The figures are 39 per cent opposed, to 30 per cent in favor today, after 11 months of the hard sell. . . . According to Alan Baron, Carter is confident that he can keep a number of prominent blacks in his camp: Coretta King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., Mayors Coleman Young of Detroit and Tom Bradley of Los Angeles, and Andrew Young. These, say Baron, could assure Carter of “at least half” the black vote. . . . Carter got a boost last week with endorsement of Sen. Lloyd Bentsen (D., Tex.), who likes Carter’s approval of a higher defense budget and the decontrol of domestic oil and gas. . . . Ambassador Patrick Lucey (to Mexico) resigned quietly last week. Hamilton Jördan has an important job for Lucey, the former Democratic governor of Wisconsin, in the Carter presidential campaign. . . . Not everything is going Teddy’s way. A Boston Globe poll shows than when voters are reminded of Chappaquiddick in a Kennedy v. Carter match, Kennedy loses five points; when they are reminded of Teddy’s high-spending inflationary programs, his vote falls 12 points. . . . Another problem, according to Evans & Novak, is that the people running the draft-Kennedy movements around the country are not the people Kennedy would have chosen for the job. Problem: How to dump them, gracefully, when the time comes. . . . Will Lady Bird Johnson support Kennedy? Human Events says no, pointing to the insults the Kennedys dumped on LBJ while he was Veep. Her candidate, says HE, could be LBJ’s old protégé, John Connally. . . . The very end: A Sindlinger poll shows Jimmy Carter just barely edging out Richard Nixon in popularity: Carter beats Nixon 51.3 per cent to 48.7 per cent.

Is Jane Fonda just a soppy liberal or is she worse? New America, the organ of the Social Democrats, quotes her (in a speech at Michigan State University some years back) as saying: “I would think that if you understood what Communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become Communists.” When she arrived in Hanoi in 1972, says New America, she said: “I come to Vietnam as a comrade.” . . . Should know better. Rev. William Sloane Coffin (former Yale chaplain), who led a U.S. peace and anti-nuclear delegation to Moscow, has returned, is converted: “The Soviet government is very serious about stopping and reversing the arms race.” “The issue of Russian troops in Cuba is definitely trumped up. It’s a shameful use of the taxpayers’ money.” And (so’s your aunt tilly dept.) to the charge, “You can’t trust the Russians,” Coffin replies: “Can you trust the Americans?” . . . The radicalization of the women’s movement continues apace with NOW (National Organization of Women) President Eleanor Smeal going around making statements like: “We’re all fighting the same opponents, J. P. Stevens, Winn-Dixie, right-to-work, and those against civil rights,” and “We’re going to stop the right wing from exploiting women’s issues, once and for all. They’re going to wish they never took us on.”