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...same time over 500 members of a group calling itself the Federal Government Employees Against the War began a three-hour rally in Lafayette Park opposite the White House and listened to Representative Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) and others denounce President Nixon's handling...
John Corwin and Bob Gippin, the first-year Law students who wrote and distributed the petition, said yesterday that they plan to contact a sympathetic member of the House-possibly Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.) or Bella Abzug (D-N.Y.)-to have the petition introduced in Congress as a bill...
...Congressional delegation consisting of Rep. Paul M. McCloskey (R-Calif.), Rep. Bella Abzug (D. N. Y.), and Rep. Thomas M. Rees (D-Calif.) met the marchers on the steps of the Capitol. Jan Crumb, president of the VVAW, read a list of 16 demands, including total withdrawal of troops, the end of appropriations for military operations in Indochina, amnesty for draft evaders who have refused induction or left the country, and appropriations for jobs and education for returning vets. Short speeches by McCloskey and Abzug followed...
Reps. Paul N. McCloskey (R-Calif.), Bella Abzug (D-N. Y.) and Donald Riegle (R-Mich.) will also speak. McCloskey, who has vowed to oppose President Nixon in the Republican presidential primaries on the war issue, returns Saturday from a trip to Vietnam and Laos...
Lowenstein would enthusiastically welcome a challenger to Nixon in next year's Republican primaries and disagrees with those who say that Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.) lacks the national recognition required. "McCloskey can do it. You hear of people when they take on the President. If the campaign is conducted on an intelligent level smallness will not be an issue." Lowenstein also said that Nixon cannot save himself by dumping Agnew and running with a liberal Vice-President: "It would just make it clear that he is utterly uninterested in the kind of problems that the people are interested...