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Lyn Nofziger, long-time Reagan advisor and important in Reagan’s shadow re-election campaign, predicts Reagan will soon emerge from the shadows. “We fully expect,” says Nofziger, “the President will let us begin to work in October”—shortly before Reagan leaves for visit to Far East. … As soon as Reagan gives word, John Anderson will decide whether to go for a re-run. Reagan, Anderson claims, is a “great hindrance to the flowering of a new political party because the vast majority of the people are opposed to Reagan . . . and they say, ‘Nothing must deter us from turning this man out of office.’ So my prospects will be much brighter if he doesn’t run.” . . . Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young doesn’t want Jesse Jackson to run. Young, who supports Walter Mondale, says, “1 don’t see any way Jesse can get through the primary process and be available to transfer the enthusiasm for himself to somebody else between July [time of Democratic convention] and November.” . . . Wesley Pruden of Washington Times wonders why Democrats aren’t making similar “don’t run” pleas to Alan Cranston and Gary Hart. Could it be. he says, that Cranston and Hart supporters are considered “sophisticated enough to ‘transfer their enthusiasm’ in the summer of 1984, but Jackson’s black folk are not?”

Back into the closet: On August 29 New York Times reporter John Herbers offered this analysis of August 27 march on Washington: “The diverse outpouring of Americans from across the nation was evidence of a revival of the activist Left since Ronald Reagan was elected President . . .” Next day an “Editors’ Note” appeared in Times: “A news analysis on page one yesterday referred to Saturday’s civil-rights march in Washington as evidence of the revival of the ‘activist Left’ in America. Many organizations participated in the march. The use of the term ‘activist Left’ [was] an incorrect generalization.” Herewith some of the “activist mainstream” organizations that sponsored march: Communist Party U.S.A., National Lawyers Guild. National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, U.S. Peace Council, Mobilization for Survival, and Women Strike for Peace.

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Lyn Nofziger, long-time Reagan advisor and important in Reagan’s shadow re-election campaign, predicts Reagan will soon emerge from the shadows. “We fully expect,” says Nofziger, “the President will let us begin to work in October”—shortly before Reagan leaves for visit to Far East. … As soon as Reagan gives word, John Anderson will decide whether to go for a re-run. Reagan, Anderson claims, is a “great hindrance to the flowering of a new political party because the vast majority of the people are opposed to Reagan . . . and they say, ‘Nothing must deter us from turning this man out of office.’ So my prospects will be much brighter if he doesn’t run.” . . . Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young doesn’t want Jesse Jackson to run. Young, who supports Walter Mondale, says, “1 don’t see any way Jesse can get through the primary process and be available to transfer the enthusiasm for himself to somebody else between July [time of Democratic convention] and November.” . . . Wesley Pruden of Washington Times wonders why Democrats aren’t making similar “don’t run” pleas to Alan Cranston and Gary Hart. Could it be. he says, that Cranston and Hart supporters are considered “sophisticated enough to ‘transfer their enthusiasm’ in the summer of 1984, but Jackson’s black folk are not?”

Back into the closet: On August 29 New York Times reporter John Herbers offered this analysis of August 27 march on Washington: “The diverse outpouring of Americans from across the nation was evidence of a revival of the activist Left since Ronald Reagan was elected President . . .” Next day an “Editors’ Note” appeared in Times: “A news analysis on page one yesterday referred to Saturday’s civil-rights march in Washington as evidence of the revival of the ‘activist Left’ in America. Many organizations participated in the march. The use of the term ‘activist Left’ [was] an incorrect generalization.” Herewith some of the “activist mainstream” organizations that sponsored march: Communist Party U.S.A., National Lawyers Guild. National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression, U.S. Peace Council, Mobilization for Survival, and Women Strike for Peace.