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Suddenly out of favor as a result of L.A. riots: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The NY Times, Sunday, Aug. 22, reprinted a bitterly critical cartoon from Denver Post (without apology). Gov. Pat Brown, when told MLK Jr. was en route, commented: Why doesn’t he stay home? Robert Kennedy, talking to the Oddfellows, took the occasion to blast irresponsible Negro civil rights leadership in Northern cities. George Weaver, Asst. Sec. of Labor (himself a Negro), made pointed crack at King:’’Civil rights leaders who speak out on sensitive foreign problems,” he said, “should never forget that with the victories won in the struggle for civil and human rights has come the sobering burden of a great responsibility.”

Will he, won’t he? Won’t he, will he? Run against Ronald Reagan in gubernatorial primary next year? Sen. Thomas Kuchel’s post-Los Angeles riots decision (according to NY Herald Trib) is no. Final word expected after top-level confab of California GOPers Sept. 24-27 …. Joseph Shell, California conservative who ran so well against Richard Nixon in ’62 gubernatorial primary (35% of vote), has joined Sen. John Tower (R., Tex), and Russell Kirk in chiding John Birch members for intemperate reaction to Wm. F. Buckley Jr. newspaper columns on the JBS …. Latest important adherents to Buckley for Mayor Committee in New York are Earl E. T. Smith, former US Ambassador to Cuba and confidant of JFK, and Frederick Strong, treasurer of McCall’s.

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Suddenly out of favor as a result of L.A. riots: The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The NY Times, Sunday, Aug. 22, reprinted a bitterly critical cartoon from Denver Post (without apology). Gov. Pat Brown, when told MLK Jr. was en route, commented: Why doesn’t he stay home? Robert Kennedy, talking to the Oddfellows, took the occasion to blast irresponsible Negro civil rights leadership in Northern cities. George Weaver, Asst. Sec. of Labor (himself a Negro), made pointed crack at King:’’Civil rights leaders who speak out on sensitive foreign problems,” he said, “should never forget that with the victories won in the struggle for civil and human rights has come the sobering burden of a great responsibility.”

Will he, won’t he? Won’t he, will he? Run against Ronald Reagan in gubernatorial primary next year? Sen. Thomas Kuchel’s post-Los Angeles riots decision (according to NY Herald Trib) is no. Final word expected after top-level confab of California GOPers Sept. 24-27 …. Joseph Shell, California conservative who ran so well against Richard Nixon in ’62 gubernatorial primary (35% of vote), has joined Sen. John Tower (R., Tex), and Russell Kirk in chiding John Birch members for intemperate reaction to Wm. F. Buckley Jr. newspaper columns on the JBS …. Latest important adherents to Buckley for Mayor Committee in New York are Earl E. T. Smith, former US Ambassador to Cuba and confidant of JFK, and Frederick Strong, treasurer of McCall’s.