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...Lyondon B. Johnson. But the President has told Democratic leaders that he will not try to influence their choice--a large-scale effort by the White House to secure Humphrey's nomination could destroy Johnson's statesmanlike pose, and it would humiliate the President if it failed. Some of LBJ's closest friends have predicted that he might not even endorse his Vice-President...
...major result of the President's aloofness will be to free the party leaders in major states who had been holding their delegations for Johnson. Gov. Richard J. Hughes, formerly a staunch LBJ man, has decided to hold his delegation uncommitted as a favorite son. But the state's top leaders--John V. Kenny, leader of the Hudson County stronghold, Rep. Frank Thompson, and state chairman Robert J. Burkhardt--haev announced for Kennedy, and privately Hughes concedes that RFK will win the nomination...
...Wisconsin primaries is a dramatic indication of their new political disposition. Says Menzies of the Globe'scampaign coverage, "We try for balance"; but what they try for often seems closer to exhaustiveness than balance. On a day when Kennedy and McCarthy both make news. Menzies tries to get an LBJ story and a Nixon story even if Johnson and Nixon have done nothing outside the routine. "What do we do on LBJ?" he asked the other day during a page-planning session, and staff members searched through news releases to find out how Johnson had spent...
Nevertheless, some of the behavior is characteristically new: flaring Music-ins on Cambridge Commons every Sunday, snake-dancing in the streets on LBJ night. It all means simply that Spring is leaking into existence and Harvard Square is proving as embarrassingly voluptuous as ever about a welcome...
...State Democrats have agreed to help McCarthy's workers as a show of party unity. "We are all Democrats," says Keith Clifford, vice-chairman of the Youth Campaign for LBJ. "McCarthy people can use the room and equipment, but Johnson people get first priority--since the party's paying the rent...