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Conceived last Spring, the write-in campaign was organized last summer by three leading Granite State Democrats, Sen. Thomas J. McIntyre. Gov. John W. King, and former Federal bureau director Bernard Boutin, now an executive at Sanders Associates, a leading defense contracting company in Nashua. Though Boutin and King deny any connection, the movement to "Draft RFK in '68" began a few weeks prior to the first "serious" planning meetings in the LBJ campaign. The Draft Kennedy movement has since been absorbed in the McCarthy campaign...
...Boutin, now Johnson's campaign chairman, sees apathy as the chief problem in attempting a write-in effort for an incumbent president. To combat apathy and to "educate the electorate," Boutin came up with the pledge card (which pledges the voter to "support President LBJ." It would "give the individual voter a personal identification with the President...and give us a good listing of the real Democratic voters in the State," Boutin explained...
...cards are the brainchild of Bernard L. Boutin, an executive at Sanders Associates, a large New Hampshire-based firm. Boutin joined Sanders early last summer when he resigned the directorship of the Small Business Administration in Washington. Sanders, one of New Hampshire's largest firms, depends on government defense contracts for most of its business...
...launched in August, when New York's Senator Robert F. Kennedy looked like a threat. Ruefully, a presidential aide recalled how L.B.J. had topped Bobby by a mere 4,000 write-in votes in the 1964 preferential primary, and he was determined to prevent a repetition. Bernard Boutin, who masterminded Estes Kefauver's successful New Hampshire campaign in 1956 and John Kennedy's in 1960, quit as Small Business Administrator in midsummer, soon thereafter surfaced in Nashua, where he is heading a similar effort for L.B.J. When Minnesota's Senator Eugene McCarthy entered the race, Boutin...
Johnson has no intention of campaigning in New Hampshire, but, as Boutin says with sublime understatement, he "is interested and is keeping posted." Johnson is also keeping posted on the November campaign, has assigned Postmaster General Lawrence O'Brien, Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Democratic National Chairman John Bailey to key positions...