Letter from Washington

Representative William Cohen, the young Republican congressman from Maine, became a Household Word last year during the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings. He may be about to seek even more notoriety by running for the Senate against Abe Lincoln—meaning, of course, Lincolnesque Senator Edmund Muskie. Cohen has been tooling around Maine and has found his reception— you’re not going to believe this— “friendly and heart-warming.” A poll he commissioned was, remarkably enough, “very encouraging.” Cohen was the pitcher for the Republicans in the recent congressional baseball game. The Republicans lost for the first time in 12 years.

Last issue in this space you learned that the Democratic presidential nominee would be former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who swept to victory in straw balloting in four Miami mock caucuses. Cato now has fresher information and can report with certainty that the nominee will be Indiana Senator Birch Bayh. He rolled to victory with 138 of the 611 votes cast in a preference poll at the Young Democrats’ national convention. He nosed out Carter, who got 86 votes. Next came Representative Morris Udall, 68, Senator Hubert Humphrey, 53, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, 49, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, 44, former Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma, 37, and the 1972 vice presidential nominee-II, Sargent Shriver, 33. Henry Jackson got 29 votes, but he did not address the convention, which explains why he did that well.

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Representative William Cohen, the young Republican congressman from Maine, became a Household Word last year during the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings. He may be about to seek even more notoriety by running for the Senate against Abe Lincoln—meaning, of course, Lincolnesque Senator Edmund Muskie. Cohen has been tooling around Maine and has found his reception— you’re not going to believe this— “friendly and heart-warming.” A poll he commissioned was, remarkably enough, “very encouraging.” Cohen was the pitcher for the Republicans in the recent congressional baseball game. The Republicans lost for the first time in 12 years.

Last issue in this space you learned that the Democratic presidential nominee would be former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, who swept to victory in straw balloting in four Miami mock caucuses. Cato now has fresher information and can report with certainty that the nominee will be Indiana Senator Birch Bayh. He rolled to victory with 138 of the 611 votes cast in a preference poll at the Young Democrats’ national convention. He nosed out Carter, who got 86 votes. Next came Representative Morris Udall, 68, Senator Hubert Humphrey, 53, former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford, 49, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, 44, former Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma, 37, and the 1972 vice presidential nominee-II, Sargent Shriver, 33. Henry Jackson got 29 votes, but he did not address the convention, which explains why he did that well.