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...most important, from his own viewpoint, is the New York Governor's race, in which he is trying to re-elect his friend Hugh Carey. Says Garth: "In my home state, I get very personally involved -and I hate to lose." His customary strategy is to demand that his candidates raise a lot of money, trim down to fighting weight, learn to concentrate on key issues, and leave the details...
Following the press conference the Senator, Kissinger and former Massachusetts Gov. John Volpe, chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect Edward Brooke, spoke briefly before a predominantly white, Republican audience of about 150, which included many Harvard alumni. Kissinger reiterated his support for the senator and spoke on the need for "linkage" (the simultaneous consideration of several issues) in foreign policy negotiations...
...representative of the Americans for Democratic Action. She feels that the highly liberal freshmen elected in 1976 have hunkered down in a hurry. "Their mail is running 10 to 1, 100 to 1, against busing, abortion, gay rights. It's phenomenal. They believe that life-style issues will re-elect them or defeat them, and so they're voting with the antis...
...President Jeb Stuart Magruder.) Says Ziegler: "I have had friends call me about the portrayal of Ferris, who comes across as a particularly insipid character. I'm comfortable in my own mind that I'm not that character." Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President, calls the whole production "so far from the actual life in Washington that it can only harm the country by making people think that this is a true picture of the capital...
John's store, to be precise, was the infamous Committee to Re-Elect the President, run on a day-to-day basis by its deputy director, Jeb Stuart Magruder. For his role in obstructing the probe, Mitchell this year began serving a 2½-to eight-year term while Magruder got out of prison in January 1975 after having served seven months. Nixon professes nothing but "compassion" for Mitchell, who, he says, was "too smart to ever get involved in a stupid jackass thing like Watergate." But, alas, Mitchell "could only think of that poor Martha and that lovely...