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JULY 15, 1974 Vol. X, No. 14 50 CENTS POLITICS: REPORTS islation, but the implementation now under way of the new law's rules is still a controversial topic. COLORADO Daniels, a Denver businessman and part-owner of the Utah Stars basket­ Furthermore, there is some danger ball team, has drawn the bulk of his that the burning issue of the upcoming In only six states this year, incum­ support from state and Denver party Denver congressional race may spill bent governors will face or have faced leaders. Competition between the two over into state politics. A bitter fight serious primary challenges. GOP aspirants perhaps peaked in is expected between U.S. Rep. Patricia In South Dakota and Texas, respec­ Denver June 1 when delegates to the Schroeder (D) and State Rep. Frank tively, Democratic incumbents annihi­ state assembly were chosen. Daniels Southworth. Southworth, president of lated more liberal challengers with sur­ needed a strong showing from his the Denver Board of Education, is an prising ease. In Florida, Gov. Reubin Denver supporters but failed to get outspoken opponent of school busing Askew (D) is expected to have the it. In the pre-meeting acrimony, Den­ and is expected to make it his major same success, but in Oklahoma, the ver GOP Chairman James Aspinal, a issue. The publicity given busing could politi~allife expectancy of Gov. David Daniels backer, denied Denver GOP conceivably complicate the state guber­ Hall (D), embattled by investigations Secretary Mary Hofstra, a Vanderhoof natorial race as well. of corruption in his administration, supporter, access to party records. Freshman U.S. Rep. James Johnson, may be shorter. Republicans have a The results of the meeting, how­ who won election with 51 percent of good shot at the governorship if Hall ever, were a sharp and unexpected set­ the vote in 1972, will be opposed by. is renominated in his party's September back for Daniels, who had hoped for State Rep. John S. Carroll (D). The primary, but if U.S. Rep. Clem Mc­ a 2-1 edge among the city's bloc of campaign has already ignited a vicious Spadden (D-2nd) defeats Hall, the delegates. At best, he probably got controversy as a result of a letter dis­ GOP will have a tougher time regain­ an even split. At the state assembly, tributed by best-selling novelist Leon ing the office they lost in 1970: Daniels was defeated by more than a Uris of Aspen. Uris, honorary chair­ Two Republican governors are in 2-1 margin. man of the Carroll campaign, called similar straits. Gov. Meldrim Thomson Vanderhoof's prospects were also Johnson "utterly without compassion, (R) is his usual embattled self in New boosted by a May poll by Decision humanity, and understanding of his Hampshire, currently under fire for dis­ Making Information of California fellow American Jews." The charge persements from a campaign fund left showing Vanderhoof has a 77-percent was made in a letter from Uris to over from his 1972 race. job approval rating and was preferred Colorado Jews and was prompted by In Colorado, however, Gov. John by voters over Daniels, 75-10 percent. several votes by Johnson which Uris Vanderhoof (R) appears to be in bet­ "No grass-roots support for Daniels construed as anti-Israel. Carroll re­ ter shape. Vanderhoof won the en­ exists," said the DMI report. fused to repudiate the letter. Johnson dorsement of the state Republican as­ If, as expected, he wins the Sep­ faces primary opposition from Earl sembly June 28 to win top line des­ tember primary, Vanderhoof will face "Duke" Laningham, a dentist and ignation for the September primary one of three Democratic aspirants: vocal member of the John Birch So­ against GOP National Committeeman State Rep. Richard Lamm, House Mi­ ciety. Bill Daniels. As ·in New Hampshire, nority Leader Tom Farley, and Mark In the state's other three congres­ the Colorado primary will continue a Hogan, a former lieutenant governor sional races, the incumbents are ex­ longstanding rivalry between moder­ who lost to former Gov. John Love pected to be returned to Congress. ate and ultraconservative wings of the in the 1970 gubernatorial race. A top U.S. Rep. Don Brotzman (R-2nd) will GOP. The conservatives took full con­ issue in the fall election may well be have more trouble this year than he trol of the Colorado GOP in 1972, land-use legislation that was hotly de­ has had in r~ent years when he won and Daniels has been pursuing the bated and finally passed by this year's nearly 2-1 victories. His probable Dem­ governorship ever since his election to legislature. Both Lamm and Vander­ ocratic opponent is 'f.im Worth, a re­ his party post. hoof were key proponents of the leg- search consultant. After the 1972 upset of Sen. Gordon by Vanderhoof this year after the in­ Republican Party as a viable statewide Allott by Floyd Haskell, Sen. Peter cumbent died. Deciding "I like this organization. It also reflects an un­ Dominick knows he's in trouble. All job," Mrs. Buchanan announced her usual situation. With three political he has to do is count the six Democrats candidacy for a full term. However, princes in the state- Gov. Dunn and seriously seeking to deprive him of some party regulars have felt her pol­ Senators Howard Baker, Jr., and Bill elected office. Vice President Gerald itics are too "moderate." • Btock - it is difficult for party poli­ Ford, a former Yale Law schoolmate ticians to remain entirely aloof from of Dominick's, has already put in one politics. Dunn, Baker, and Brock have campaign stop to assist the GOP in­ worked together to build and unify cumbent. TENNESSEE the party in Tennessee, and each has Dominick's Democratic opposition is a slightly different base of support (al­ led by Herrick S. Roth, former Colo­ Twenty-three Tennesseans filed to though they share a significant amount rado AFL-CIO leader who was deposed run for the governorship this year, but of support). Dunn and Baker split the progressive vote, while Brock en­ by George Meany when the Colorado chances appear good that the one who AFL-CIO endorsed George McGovern will succeed Republican Gov. Winfield joys considerable penetration to the in 1972. Other Democratic aspirants Dunn (he cannot succeed himself) conservative voter groups. include Gary Hart, former McGovern will also be one of the three GOP No heir apparent to Dunn emerged campaign manager, Joe Dolan, busi­ candidates. Lacking a runoff provision, in the party, so Alexander, Oldham, nessman and former Kennedy aide; the top vote-getters in the August 1 and Winston began to develop their former Arapahoe County District At­ primary will compete in the November campaigns to fill this vacuum. Each torney Martin Miller; Alan Merson, 5 general election. candidate secured support from each of the three princedoms at first, and law professor and 1972 Democratic op­ Republicans Dortch Oldham, Lamar the three princes tried not to show ponent of U.S. Rep. Johnson; and Alexander, and Dr. Nat Winston are favoritism in the name of "party uni­ Harvey Phelps, a physician. entered in the Republican primary, and ty" (which is always a sacred cow in the state GOP essentially has stabilized Dominick has been hit in particular Tennessee). In time, however, it was around these men. The Democratic by Hart's criticism of his handling of only natural that Dunn, Baker, and party, meanwhile, remains in flux, a $100,000 contribution from the Brock began to move toward the var­ dairy industry to CREEP. The contri­ far more philosophically divided and more diffused among 12 candidates. ious camps. These moves have been bution was in effect laundered by de­ quietly made, but the mark of Baker is livery via the GOP Senate Campaign In such a large field, issues will more often seen in Alexander's cam­ Committee (of which Dominick was playa secondary role to the personali­ paign, notably through campaign man­ chairman) and thence to the Re­ ties of the individual candidates. The ager Gary Sisco, who was Baker's ex­ publican National Committee and then goal appears to be obtaining significant ecutive assistant in Washington. Mean­ to CREEP. pluralities based largely on the impact while, Brock workers and assistants, In contests at the GOP state assem­ of name recognition and personal con­ sensing the mood of their mentor, be­ bly for two other statewide offices, tact. Electronic media are being saved gan to move toward the Winston camp, House Speaker John Fuhr won top­ for the post-primary race, and the press while Oldham seems to be appealing line designation for lieutenant gover­ has difficulty covering all the candi­ more and more to Dunn interests. nor over the acting lieutenant gov­ dates, so personal contact and "or time All of this movement is so quiet and ernor, former Senate President Ted politicking" seem to be the major amicable that casual subjects of the Strickland. In the contest for secre­ approach. After the primaries some princedoms often do not realize what tary of state, the present incumbent, key issues will ma.terialize, but Gov. is happening. No endorsements from Mrs. Mary E. Buchanan, narrowly Dunn's record will be difficult for the the GOP royalty are expected during won top-line designation over her for­ Democrats to attack. the primary. mer top assistant, Jerry Connolly. Mrs. That three Republican candidates At first it was thought by political in­ Buchanan was appointed to her post emerged reflects the maturity of the siders that the Republican race would

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2 be between Winston and Oldham. as a limited no-fault. A banjo-strum­ red up the campaign. Time has proven Alexander to be a ming candidate, he feels his back­ It had been generally acknowledged serious contender for the nomination. ground would uniquely qualify him that Mathias would have a more dif­ Regardless of the outcome, the Re­ for work in social services. ficult time getting through a Republi­ publican candidate will be in a compar­ The top Democrats are: can primary against a conservative chal­ atively better position than his Demo­ Ray Blanton, 45-year-old Adamsville lenger than he would in winning the cratic counterpart. His base of support businessman and former congressman, November election. will probably be larger, at least initial­ lost to Baker in 1972; Jake Butcher, It had long been expected that Mrs. ly, and better unified. The Republican 37, a banker and auto dealer; Wash- Helen Delich Bentley, chairman of the candidates have meticulously refrain­ - ington Butlet·, a Black Shelby Coun­ Federal Maritime Commission, would ed from mud-slinging within the ty Court squire; Hudley Crockett, 41, run a strong challenge to Mathias if GOP stables, have all praised the Nashville business consultant (no re­ she filed. There had been fund-raising Dunn administration, and have tried lation to Davey, he lost primary race efforts on her behalf, and computer to build positive campaign platforms. for Senate in 1970); Ross Bass, for­ letters to all Maryland's registered Re­ The Democrats, on the other hand, mer congressman and senator; Stan publicans were waiting to be mailed have observed their quadrennial pen­ Snodgrass, 1970 gubernatorial aspirant, the day after she met the filing dead­ chant for personal political homicide, ex-state senator, now Nashville law­ line. although there seems to be a lessen­ yer; James M. Powers, mayor of Mrs. Bentley entered the office to ing of traditional animosities. Waverly and president of Tennessee file at 9 p.m., July 1 - just at the deadline. She walked out five minutes Significantly, the candidates this year municipal league; Tom Wiseman, re­ later, a noncandidate. Apparently she are younger, more progressive, and signed as state treasurer to make gu­ decided that in a three-way race with more reformist. Shotgun approaches to bernatorial race; and David Pack, re­ conservative gadfly Ross Z. Pierpont, the entire electorate are becoming more signed as a:tl:orney general to make race. she could not win. common as the traditional pockets of Among the Democrats, the candi­ Pierpont, a maverick Baltimore sur­ power - geographical, racial, political, dates span the political spectrum, and geon who has long been a thorn in and social - become more diversified. the overlap - both philosophically, geographically, and "voter-wise" - the side of moderate Maryland Re­ Sketches of the GOP candidates fol­ will be a sore point as these Demo­ publicans, had filed for the Senate low: crats vie for votes and funds. Blanton, earlier in the day. He was also one Lamar Alexander, 33, a Nashville Crockett, Hooker, and Snodgrass have of ten persons indicted the same day lawyer, campaign manager for Win­ proven themselves before as capable on charges of illegal handling of the field Dunn's successful gubernatorial of mounting campaigns. Wiseman and drug "dilaudid." His indictment was bid in 1970, staff assistant to Howard Butcher seem to be making an im­ dismissed the next day on the grounds Baker, White House aide under Bryce pa:ct, and Pack is regarded to be a that the grand jury lacked jurisdiction Harlow, one of the "bright young shrewd politician, although his cam­ men" emerging concurrently with the paign is in low gear. GOP in Tennessee. A Baker-style mod­ erate, he considers the major issues to In 1970, Winfield Dunn said in be keeping taxes down, providing ade­ his gubernatorial campaign that it was quate services, and combatting crime. time for a change from the Demo­ cratic stranglehold on the state. That Dortch Oldham, 54, a Nashville hold is broken. The 1974 race prom­ book and bible publisher, has been a ises to be one of the first two-party major fund-raiser for Brock and Dunn races for governor this state has seen and headed up Baker's financial drive in decades. It also seems likely that in the 1972 senatorial race. From the a Republican, capitalizing on the work familiar genre of the Republican busi­ of a respected Republican state admin­ nessman, he seeks to put the state istration (and on the factionalization government on a businesslike basis. of the opposition party) can take the Sees attracting industry as a major state again. • goal, supports neighborhood schools and teacher pay raises. Calls himself "a mature, successful, conserva:tive, Christian businessman." MARYLAND Dr. Nat Willstoll, 47, a Nashville psychiatrist, served as state commis­ It was never expected that Mary­ sioner of mental health under Dunn, land Gov. Marvin Mandel (D) and was campaign coordinator for Brock Sen. Charles McC. Mathias (R) would in 1970. Seeks a return to more tradi­ be reelected without major opposition, tional values, e.g. returning the rudi­ but the potential challengers kept their ments of the jR's to schools, and also plans in doubt until late June when supports some modern issues, such a flurry of political announcements stir- Marvin Mandel

3 over the doctor. Pierpont, who has run Hogan. Since Hogan is divorced and for governor and senator as a Demo­ remarried, Mandel's highly-publicized RHODE ISLAND crat and for congressman and mayor of problems likely to affect the race. Baltimore as a Republican, said there Mandel. is expected to finalize a di­ was a plot "to destroy me both pro­ vorce with Barbara Mandel and marry Although an entire slate of statewide fessionally and politically." sweetheart Jeanne Dorsey before the offices are up for election this year, primary - thus minimizing any po­ the biggest excitement in Rhode Is­ Speculation on the Democratic op­ litical repercussions from Mrs. Dorsey's ponent for Mathias had centered on land politics revolves around the Prov­ visits to the gubernatorial mansion. Balt'imore City Councilwoman Barbara idence mayoralty race, which has split Mikulski, who gained national fame as Mandel himself will be opposed by the Democratic Party in this small state chairman of Democratic delegation se­ two insurgent Democratic tickets, led into two camps. Unfortunately for the GOP, the Democratic split is unlike­ lection commissions, and Bernard M. by former Court of Appeals Judge Wil­ ly to improve their luck in November. Talley, Jr., a former Air Force POW. son K. Barnes and State Sen. George Mikulski announced June 27, and Tal­ Snyder. Barnes has limited name rec­ Seeking his fourth term, Providence ley announced at a VFW convention ognition, and Snyder has been hurt Mayor Joseph Doorley (D) will face two days later. Mikulski has indicated by reports of tax delinquencies in his six other Democrats in the September she would concentrate her campaign business ventures. Neither man is ex­ primary, but his most serious opponent on economic issues. Although she is pected to seriously trouble Mandel in is Francis Brown, a former Providence expected to wage a tough Senate cam­ a primary. The incumbent long ago public works director under Doorley paign, Mikulski may have her eyes salted away a substantial campaign who has been endorsed by the city (along with those of several other fund. Democratic Committee. Doorley, who prominent Maryland Democrats) on Hogan's gubernatorial campaign has noted that Brown can "go to hell," the seat held by Sen. Glenn Beall, leaves open his Prince George's con­ has received the support of U.S. Rep. who will be up for reelection in 1976. gressional seat. The county has tradi­ Robert Tiernan and Sens. Claiborne Pell and John Pastore. Gov. Philip Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. Lawrence tionally been Democratic, and the GOP has long been split between factions Noel and Democratic State Chairman Hogan (R) also ended months of spec­ Charles Riley, however, have endorsed ulation by announcing he would op­ supporting Hogan and County Execu­ tive William W. Gullett. Hogan at Brown, leading Doorley to announce pose GOP National Committeewoman that his supporters will sit on their Louise Gore for the Republican gu­ one point even threatened to run for Democratic hands in the gubernato­ bernatorial nomination. Both are con­ Gullett's post. The GOP's probable congressional candidate for the 5th rial election. The Republican candidate servatives but former UNESCO Am­ for mayor is Vincent "Buddy" Cianti, bassador Gore is given virtually no CD. will be John Burcham, a Prince George's County councilman, but he Jr., who gained public exposure as an chance to defeat Hogan. Hogan's assistant attorney general investigating chances of defeating Mandel depend will have a hard time saving it for corruption at the Providence Civic Cen­ largely on the progress of continuing his party. ter. corruption investigations into the Man­ One other cloud on the GOP hori­ del Administration. Only direct im­ zon is a primary contest between pro­ In the statewide contests, the GOP plication of Mandel would open the gressive U.S. Rep. Gilbert Gude (R- has nominated a slate of candidates way to the gubernatorial mansion for 8th) and Sheldon Z. Zaplan, a Wash­ which disregards the usual ethnic con­ ington lawyer. There are four Demo­ siderations. The nominees approved at crats seeking ·the congressional nomi­ a June 10th State Republican meeting nation, including Lanny Davis, a for­ were: for governor, James W. Nugent, mer aide to Sen. Edmund S. Muskie. a conservative insurance executive who Sidelight: George "Your-home-is-your­ served as state GOP finance chairman; castle" Mahoney, the Democrat whom for lieutenant governor, Louise Kazan­ Spiro Agnew defeated in the 1966 j ian, a bank official and vice chairman gubernatorial election, is running for of the Newport School Board; for neither the Senate nor the governor­ attorney general, incumbent Richard Is­ this year. Instead, Mahoney, who has rael; for secretary of state, Thomas Ian­ made seven races for the Senate and nitti, a young salesman; and for treas­ five for the governorship, is running urer, John Daluz, a black credit union for Baltimore County executive. Two official. previous occupants of that post, Agnew A North Providence Republican and Democrat Dale Anderson, were lawyer, Ernest Barone, will contest indicted and convicted during the past U.S. Rep. Fernand St. Germain. The year. If Mahoney were to upset the GOP has the greatest difficulty in field­ incumbent for the Democratic nomina­ ing a sacrificial Iamb against U.S. Rep. tion, he would open the way for State Tiernan. Vincent Rotundo, a handi­ Sen. Jervis S. Finney (R) to win the capped businessman, responded to a Lawrence Hogan post in November. • television report about the GOP's can-

4 didate search by volunteering his can­ in Idaho politics with his frequent that Church's wonder boy image is didacy. Two days later, the Provi­ campaigns and strident rhetoric. fading, but the 49-year-old Democrat dence TV station was able to announce No matter which Hansen wins the is a formidable candidate. that it had found the GOP a candi­ August 6 GOP primary, he will prob­ Gov. Cecil Andrus may be an even date. Such are the depths to which ably face Max Hanson, a conservative tougher target for Lt. Gov. Jack Mur­ GOP hopes in Rhode Island have farmer who is the likely Democratic phy, the only GOP gubernatorial can­ sunk .• nominee. didate. Murphy, an attorney-rancher As newly elected GOP State Chair­ who has served in his current post man Robert G. Linville, Jr., points out, since 1967, has extensive name rec­ IDAHO keeping the GOP together may be ognition but will have a difficult job the party's biggest problem this year. undermining Andrus, a conservative No matter who wins the congres­ Linville, a Boise businessman elected Democrat. Even simmering scandals in sional election in Idaho's 2nd CD. at the GOP's June 22 state conven­ the Andrus administration have fail­ this year, it will be a Hansen. U.S. tion, is optimistic, however, that the ed to dim his popularity. Rep. Orval Hansen (R), the incum­ seams of party unity will hold. The three-way race for lieutenant bent moderate conservative, is being The GOP will have several other governor includes Hope Kading, a challenged in his party's primary by primaries including a three-man con­ lobbyist and former state YR chairman former U.S. Rep. George Hansen, who test for the nomination to oppose Sen. ("gangbuster" variety) ; State Rep. ran unsuccessfully against Sen. Frank Church this November. Bob Smith, a Vernon Ravenscroft, a former Demo­ Church (D) in 1968 and lost the former minister who resigned as an crat who opposed Andrus in the 1970 GOP Senate primary in 1972. administrative assistant to U.S. Rep. gubernatorial primary; and Pat Har­ The archconservative George Han­ Steve Symms (R) to run for the wood, a former public relations man sen may have worn out his welcome seat, is favored. Republicans are hoping for the J .R. Simplot Co. •

"We want no Presidents in here, no vice president, no POLITICS: PEOPLE Republican heavies, no movie stars, and no dog and pony shows ... We don't have a chance in hell of winning this one unless we can confine it to Indiana • Sen. James L. Buckley (Cons.-N.Y.) will not issues and the competence of the two candidates, pe­ support Sen. Jacob Javits (R.-N.Y.) in this year's Sen­ riod." ate race. Calling Javits "too liberal," Buckley said, "It's self-evident that I can't support him." Incidentally, • The Minnesota GOP State Convention voted to support repeal of ratification of the Equal Rights the conservative Buckley picked up $24,000 last year Amendment, but the move was later disavowed by the speaking before 10 meetings of Republican organiza­ Republican nominees for governor and lieutenant gov­ tions. Most top Republicans do that sort of speech­ ernor, State Rep. John Johnson and Moorehead Mayor making free. Dwaine Hoberg. The disavowal was also endorsed by • On June 4, U.S. Rep. Earl Landgrebe (R) 48 other leading Minnesota Republicans - with the announced for Indiana's GOP Senate nomination. notable exception of GOP State Chairman Robert The arch-conservative Landgrebe said he had been en­ Brown. State Sen. Robert Stassen, who won the GOP couraged by "certain circles" in the White House to nomination for state treasurer over former Minneapolis contest Indianapolis Mayor Ruchard Lugar for the Mayor Charles Stenvig, also endersed the pro-ERA GOP nomination. Lugar used to be described as Rich­ move that was organized by Candice Olson, coordi­ ard Nixon's "favorite mayor," but Lugar's political nator of GOP Women for Political Effectiveness. Sten­ mentor, Indiana GOP national Committeeman Keith vig, meanwhile, has not ruled out a primary challenge Bulen, has been on the "outs" with the White House to Stassen for the treasurer nomination; a vacancy de­ since the 1972 presidential campaign. Landgrebe, elect­ veloped for the position when the incumbent was hos­ ed to Congress in 1968 to succeed former House Mi­ pitalized on the eve of the convention and decided not nority Leader Charles Halleck, was overwhelmingly re­ to seek reelection. jected by the Indiana State Convention June 21. Lugar was endorsed 1,710-310. The result was so obvious that • Sen. George McGovern (D) is trying to make GOP leaders reportedly urged some delegates to vote a campaign issue out of political donations to GOP Senate Leo Thorsness by several large contributors to for Landgrebe in order to avoid any embarrassment in CREEP. According to a Watergate Committee staff re­ the congressman's upcoming congressional race. Before port, however, over $340,000 in funds from Mc­ the convention, Landgrebe said he would not support Govern's 1972 presidential campaign were transferred Lugar against Sen. Birch Bayh (D) this fall unless to his present South Dakota Senate race before all Lugar made "substantial concessions" to support Presi­ the debts from McGovern's presidential campaign were dent Nixon. Unlike Democrats at their convention paid. earlier the same week, Lugar was enthusiastically ap­ plauded in his acceptance speech. Bayh had addressed • Something-to-Remember Department: When the a largely vacant convention hall, since most of the Young Americans for Freedom hold their Annual Con­ Democratic delegates had already left. Lugar's name ference in San Francisco July 18-21, they will be cele­ I recognition in the state has improved significantly this brating an historic event. A banquet will be held in year, and his campaign appears to be on the upswing. honor of Sen. Barry Goldwater and his Cow Palace pres­ Commenting on the race earlier this spring, Bulen said, idential nomination in 1964. 5 • At least two women have given up congressional Roth had been expected to seek the seat, but he was campaigns this year in deference to their husbands. In appointed to the State Liquor Authority. State Rep. Washington, "Walkin' Will" Knedlik, a 28-year-old Edward Meyer changed his registration from Repub­ Democrat who walked around the state in his unsuc­ lican to Democrat, announced his candidacy, and with­ cessful campaign for lieutenant governor in 1972, has drew in favor of former U.S. Rep. Richard L. Ottinger announced he will oppose U.S. Rep. Joel Pritchard (D), who became the endorsed Democratic candidate. (R-lst). Knedlik's wife decided against making the Meyer is not even seeking reelection. When U.S. Rep. race herself because of commitments to teach at Wash­ Ogden Reid (D) took himself out of the gubernatorial ington State University in the fall. Pritchard's 1972 race, he also moved himself from consideration for re­ Democratic opponent, John Hemplemann, now appears nomination to Congress. Republican John Loeb, Jr., to be a doubtful entry' in the campaign. had been expected to be the GOP candidate in the district, but he dropped out of the race when it was • In Missouri's 4th C.D., the GOP originally revealed that the investment banking firm of Loeb, named Rozann Patterson as its candidate to oppose U.S. Rhoades & Co. delivered a $25,000 cash contribution Rep. William J. Randall (D). Mrs. Patterson later to Oklahoma Gov. David Hall's 1970 election cam­ withdrew in favor of her' husband, 37-year-old Rev. paign. Several months later the firm received an Claude Patterson, the director of the Headstart pro­ underwriting contract on a $74 million Oklahoma. turn­ gram in west-central Missouri. Patterson would have pike bond issue. The new GOP designee is Charles J. had to resign his government job had he been named Stephens, president of a chemical firm. at an earlier date. In 1966, Patterson was an anti-Viet­ nam candidate in the GOP congressional primary. This • Correction: Sen. Bill Brock (R-Tenn.) has point­ year, Missouri Republicans feel they have a chance to ed out that on Senate Vote 478 (rejecting the President's oust Randall with Patterson. The Democratic incum­ veto of the war powers resolution), he was actually in bent received only 57 percent of the vote against a support of the Ripon position and voted against the half-hearted GOP effort in 1972. President's veto. Sen. Brock's 1973 Ripon Rating there­ • Aspirants for New York's 24th C.D. seat have fore should have been 53 percent, rather than the 47 had a high attrition rate this year. Republican Mike percent listed in the April 1 FORUM.

didn't have any money to buy clothes or sometimes I just did it for the fun of it, but I wouldn't do anything like MARGIN RELEASE Patty and her friends did. I never had ten thousand dol­ lars in my hand, but I am sure that Patty didn't do it for the money. I am not sure what she did it for, but from BREED'S HILL - Truck made the front page of the experience, I know that it's not worth it. New York Times the other day. Leggie was already in "It took me more than ten years to realize that. I prison, hut he was mentioned in the article since it was hope that Patty or any buddy that is in ·that bag realizes it a rerun of last year's escapade. too. It's kind of true that people with money can't go to To recap ancient history, last July Leggie and Truck jail, but sometimes not even money can save you. You were accused of breaking Leggie's girlfriend out of a ju­ can go ask Spiro Agnew and he'll tell you I speak the venile detention center at gunpoint. Leggie, then aged 15, truth. It's all r.ight when punk kids start doing it, but subsequently went to prison. Truck, although accused of when people like Agnew start doing it, that doesn't look the same crime, was never charged by the local police and right for the country. Maybe he thought like me, 'How was subsequently released. are they going to find out that I did it?' He found out Less than a year Truck, now aged 17, and three like I did and like Patty will some day. compatriots were charged with a similar episode - except "You know it's funny. You get up from your bed, in this case a matron at the detention center was wounded, wash up, and go turn on the radio to hear your favorite and five juveniles were released. song and all of a sudden you hear the news: "Two juve­ Since both Truck and Watergate were still in the niles bust in juvenile home at gunpoint and escape wi·th news, there must be some striking parallels and heavy girl." The second time I heard my name, I thought it morals to be drawn from this incident. In my research was a dream because I was used to them blaming some­ for conclusions, I looked allover Breed's Hill. There thing on me. But they never blamed me by radio before. weren't many to be found - probably because the British I knew that it was another mistake. But, like always, I took them when ·they retreated 199 years ago. got caught, and like always, I stayed in jail, and like al­ But maybe Truck drew his own parallels. Several ways, they dismissed the charges. . months ago he wrote a short essay, short perhaps in gram­ "I know how Patty's mother and father felt because mar but maybe longer in other ways: my mother felt the same way. But my mother and father "Well there comes a time when you want to do some­ didn't just come from a vacation; they can't even afford thing right, or do something different for a change. a good car. "Six months ago, I was doing something like what "Well, I know that I can't beat the law. Agnew Patty Hearst is doing now. But the reason why I was do­ knows that too. The only one thltt doesn't know that is ing it is way different from Patty's. I did it because I President Nixon and even he will find out some day." db

6 been a critical test of strength - and one not likely to be reduced by vari­ ous rule changes or the introduction COMMENTARY: of other state primaries. Consequent­ ly, presidential aspirants such as S:n. The GOP Charles Percy will clearly recognize their personal interest in a Flournoy victory and can be expected to assist the campaign whenever asked. But other progressive Republicans should recognize their personal stake, too. The Propes. question is not just what influence Flournoy will have on who will be the 1976 GOP presidential nominee - that may well be Gerald A. Ford, sives' anyway - but what influence he will have on the self-image and public image of the Republican Party. PoUtieal Gov. Ronald Reagan has long served Houston Flournoy as a national symbol of conservative help neutralize the impact of Water­ domination of the GOP, and to re­ gate on the Republican nominee. In­ place him with Flournoy would be sig­ deed with the GOP rank-and-file de­ Priority nificant indeed. It would be doubly pres;ed by the scandals in Washingto~, significant because Nelson A. Rocke­ D.C. - in California, the Democratic feller, who by his mere presence on registration of 3-2 has been augme~t­ the national scene dominated the pro­ ed by a 4-1 edge among voters regis­ by Robert D Behn gressive wing of the GOP for over a tered this year - campaign appear­ decade, has abdicated both as governor ances by a large number of promi­ of New York and as leader of the nent progressive Republicans could progressive Republicans. Our wing of give purpose to the campaign and mo­ "There is no race in the country the party holds governorships from bilize the energies of local GOP work- . that we look at with more importance Washington to Iowa, Missouri, North ers. and attach any more significance to Carolina, Michigan, Massachusetts; but A Flournoy victory in November than we do this governor's race," said neither Daniel J. Evans, Robert D. would be a major boost to the morale Democratic National Chairman Robert Ray, Christopher S. Bond, James E. and power of GOP progressives, al­ Strauss recently about this year's gu­ Holshouser, Jr., William G. Milliken, though as yet there is little recogni­ bernatorial contest in California .. nor Francis W. Sargent have proven tion of the fact. Progressive Republi­ The same should be true for pro­ to be a major force in national Re­ cans would do well to stop complain­ gressive R~publicans. For us, It is the publican politics. As governor of New ing about conservative domination of most important campaign of 1974, for York Malcolm Wilson, who will also the party and invest their energies in the outcome of this election will de­ run i~ November as the candidate of the one race this year that can really termine the progressives' place with­ the New York Conservative Party, make a difference. • in the GOP for several years. Houston automatically becomes an important na­ I. Flournoy is our most important can­ tional figure. So does the governor of Robert D. Behn writes about the didate. As David S. Broder wrote in California. GOP for the FORUM. T he Washington Post before the June Given the depth of Flournoy's Cal­ primary: "If the 44-year-old Princeton ifornia financial support, monetary con­ The Nixon Administration, ac­ Ph.D. in political science- [Flournoy] tributions from around the country cording to the Jaws of Victory, is becomes governor, his victory will re­ may not be critical. But political and "a dramatic example of men bent store the political credentials of Cali­ staff support may well be. Evans, on rational suicide." fornia's progressive Republicans for the Ray, Bond, Holshouser, Milliken, and first time in a decade, create a coun­ Sargent all could offer assistance from Jaws of Victory, the Ripon Socie­ terforce to conservative hero Ronald their own gubernatorial campaigns and ty's book on delinquency in Ameri­ Reagan on his own home grounds, and administrations - perhaps even detail­ can politics, is available for $10.95 alter the balance of power between ing key aides for a week .to work with from: progressives and conservatives in the Flournoy's staff. Nationally recognized RIPON SOCIETY national GOP." senators such as Charles Mathias, Ed­ 509 C Street N.E. Coming at the end of the quadren­ ward Brooke, Lowell Weicker, Clifford nial preconvention campaign, the Cal­ Case, Jacob Javits, and Mark Hatfield Washington, D.C. 20002 ifornia presidential primary has long could, by campaigning with Flournoy,

7 former aide to Sen. Dewey Bartlett (R-Okla.) is its exec­ utive director. The Steering Committee in the Senate has the same name as a similar House group, and according DULY NOTED: POLITICS to Phillips, "Both Steering Committe~s share a commit­ ment to realignment and fusion with southern Democrats." Concludes Phillips, "All these Capitol Hill ideological al­ liances, from the liberal House Democratic Study Group • "Essex GOP Reprise of Sandman Divisiveness," by to the (progressive Republican) Wednesday clubs, the Robert Comstock. (Hackensack, N.J.) Record, June 23, (conservative House Democratic) Waggoner bloc, and the , 1974. "Echoes of the disastrous Sandman-for-governor Steering Committees, are vehicles for creating meaning­ campaign returned to haunt New Jersey Republicans last ful working relationships in a situation where old party week. There is continuing internal dissension over whether lines have become virtually meaningless. Who knows? and how the state GOP is to payoff the staggering Perhaps these groups are the precursors of new and more $350,000 debt left by the effort to elect Rep. Charles W. logical party lines." Sandman, Jr., and Essex County Republicans charged state party Chairman Webster B. Todd with blatant in­ • "Requiem for the GOP," by James V. Hall. Hono­ terference in an attempt to help Sandman forces unseat lulu Star-Bulletin, June 4, 1974. "After working flve years county Chairman Frederic Remington." Remington, who with the Republican Party, two of those in the state was a chief candidate for the state chairmanship him­ legislature and three as the party's executive director, self last year, was upset by Todd's nomination of a long­ there is only one solid observation I can make and that time conservative thorn of Remington, Joseph A. Intile, is that the two-party system in Hawaii is nearing ex­ Jr., as deputy state chairman. Todd changed lntile's title tinction. This is not a unique perception; it has been com­ to special assistant to the chairman in order to placate mented on by journalists, editorial writers, and other ob­ the Essex organization. "Intile'sassignment in the post servers of the political scene for some time. As some­ is to get the party creditors, some of whom have gone one said, "There may bea 'two-party system in Hawaii, ,to court, off its collective neck. And he has an extra­ but the Republican Party isn't one of them." Hall, who ordinary plan for doing it. He's seeking 30 GOP angels recently resigned his party post, wrote, "If it weren't to lend the party $7,500 .a piece under these conditions: for the almost herculean efforts by people like Carla they get no interest, they will be paid back whenever Coray, the party chairman, and a handful of others, this party receipts exceed operating expenses, and any loan woeful prediction might have already come to pass." The not repaid by September 1, 1976, will be canceled, in most important factor in the current situation, accord­ effect becoming a eontribution. All that the investors will ing to Hall, is the control of all three bl'anches of gov­ get for their money is the thrill of seeing their names list­ ernment at almost every level by the Democrats. As a ed as members of the GOP State Finance Committee.'; result, the GOP has great difficulty recruiting candidates, Such .a deal The GOP reportedly has got the "angels" raising money, and publicizing isS'lles. Hall says the GOP in line, however. is also handicapped by the "'closed primary," which dis­ courages both potential candidates and potential con­ • "New Forces Join in CurtIs Bid," by Charles W. tributors by the limited Republican participation. The Hucker. KaDsas City Star, June 9, 1974. "Thomas B. growth of public employees' unions has hurt both par­ Curtis, long identified with the staunchly conservative ties, he argues, because their flnancial clout dwarfs both branch of the Missouri GOP, is building a campaign or­ Democrats and Republicans. "In sum, it must be said ganization for his U.S. Senate bid from workers close to that the health of the two-party system in Hawaii is the Bond-Danforth wing of the party. Although Curtis extremely poor. Only the concerted effort of an aroused occasionally has been on the opposite side of the polit­ and concerned citizenry can stem this drift into a system ical fence from Gov. Christopher S. Bond and John C. Dan­ totally controlled by an oligopoly of power brokers." forth, [they] will playa major role in the :uphill effort by Curtis to unseat Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.) in • "Suburb to City, Bosses Durer a Bit In Style," by November's election. Curtis, who was a member of the Frank Lynn. New York TImes, July 7, 1974, "The post­ U.S. House for 18 years, lost to Eagleton in the 1968 war population shift from city to S'Ilburbs has been fol­ Senate contest by nearly 37,000 votes." The united GOP lowed by the growth of the kind of monolithic political front is broken only by some dissension from supporters machine in parts of suburbia that was once strictly the of U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor, still angry over Curtis' back­ fare of big cities. Political bossism is, in fact, flourishing ing of a 1972 primary opponent to Taylor. Leading Curtis' in the suburbs while it is more or less holding its own in organization will be fomler assistant Missouri state attor­ New York City. The new suburban machine is epitomized ney general Warren K. Morgens. The 34-year-old Morgens by the Nassau County Republican organization run by practices law with two other close associates of Bond Assemblyman Joseph M. Margiotta, just as Meade H. Es­ and Danforth and was the executive director of Missouri posito, the Brooklyn Democratic leader, retains the title CREEP in 1972. as the city's preemient political leader." Both base a large part of their power on the control they exereise over • "Towa.rd pa.rty ReaIlgnment," by Kevin P. Phillips. legislative delegations. The businesslike manner of Mar­ Providence Journal-Bulletin, June 8 1974. "Students of giotta's $1 million operation contrasts with the older, U.S. political realignment will want to take note of a more personal approach of Esposito. Part of Margiotta's policy and strategy organization just formed in the U.S. success, however, Lynn attributes to demography. "Sub­ Senate to orchestrate conservative Republicans and south­ urban bossism is built on the bedrock of its urban coun­ ern Democrats against liberal legislators of both parties. terpart: fund-raising, patronage, and legislative influence, For the moment, the new group, christened the 'Steering which produce benefits that continually reinforce the ma­ Committee,' includes only Republicans, but participants chine's power base. But it owes its success largely to believe it is merely a matter of time beforea few southern suburban demography. A relatively homogeneous and af­ Democrats exchange private cooperation for open affilia­ fluent population makes the suburban more 'manageable' tion." Only two months old, the Steering Committee is politically than the city, where diverse sectors compete chaired by Sen. Carl Curtis (R-Neb.) with Sen. James for power that has waned as the suburbs' political poten­ McClure (R-ldaho) as vice chairman. Tom Cantrell, a cy has increased."

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