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...test of RFK's electoral strength will be California. If he ekes out the necessary plurality over Johnson and McCarthy, he will at least still be in the running, which is to say able to reap the reward if the President falters. If, on the other hand, Kennedy achieves no better than 35 per cent, as against, say, 40 per cent for LBJ and 25 per cent for McCarthy, he will have died a quiet death and be remembered, if at all, as "that other Kennedy...
...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...
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...bringing in his own team laid him open to charges of carpet bagging, it has been an excellent move in other ways. It seems to be a Kennedy trait to appoint good men, and RFK has come up with some excellent advisors. Many, like him, are Harvard graduates. Many are men who have worked with him or years and whom he has now brought with him from the Justice Department to New York...
...upon Murphy to repudiate the Arizonan's positions on medicare, labor-management relations, and nuclear control. Named to the seat of the late Senator Claire Engle, Salinger will be listed as the incumbent on the November ballot. He hopes this will dissipate the image of carpetbagging, which has, since RFK plnged into New York politics, cur Salinger's lead in the polls from 65 to 55 per cent. Salinger also enjoys the advantage of California's 3 to 2 Democratic edge in voter registration. The registration figures are, however, deceptive, since many conservative and moderate Democrats regularly cross party lines...