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...Udall, United Nations Ambassador Arthur Goldberg and even Housing and Urban Development Secretary Robert Weaver, despite the harsh treatment that Kennedy subjected him to during the recent hearings on cities. Behind Johnson, the experts speculated, would be Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, Commerce Secretary John Connor and Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John Gardner. Postmaster General Larry O'Brien is considered a question mark. In the second and third tiers of the federal bureaucracy and among Democratic officeholders around the U.S., the preference for Bobby is even more pronounced...
...White House meeting, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler and Commerce Secretary John Connor opposed any action by the Administration, but they were virtually alone. The President ordered the Budget Bureau and the Treasury to work out some recommendations, put his men to work drafting an economic message that will outline a series of at least half a dozen specific actions. There will almost certainly be no general tax increase right now, partly because Johnson believes that such a hike would hurt Democrats in the coming elections and partly because he feels that asking for it now would give Republicans an excuse...
Last week Nickerson withdrew from the contest, and Kennedy invited O'Connor down to his McLean, Va., home for breakfast and a chat. In a sense, Kennedy was also coming to O'Connor's table. He pledged preconvention neutrality, which was all that O'Connor needed for the virtual assurance that he would get the nomination to oppose Governor Nelson Rockefeller's bid for a third term...
Mistaken Identity. A member of the noncerebral, one-of-the-boys school of politics, O'Connor, 56, is a smiling, pleasant fellow with wiry good looks and a wholesome family life (one wife, three sons). Born in New York City of immigrant parents, he worked his way through college (Niagara University) and law school as a lifeguard and merchant seaman. As a lawyer, he got some national attention for his conscientious - and ultimately successful - defense of Christopher Balestrero, a musician who was the victim of a mistaken-identity arrest...
...Connor then won three terms in the state senate, where his record tended toward conservatism. He has changed his views considerably since then, now makes a big point of his liberalism. In ten years as Queens County district attorney, he established a solid but unexceptional reputation, staking out a claim to progressive principles. He was the only New York district attorney to oppose capital punishment. Last year he wanted to run for mayor but had to settle for the city council presidency nomination. The machine's candidate for mayor, Abraham Beame, lost to Republican John Lindsay...