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...most entertaining section contains capsule descriptions of the candidates, and reveals the following facts: Yale men (Shriver, Scranton, Morton) outnumber the Harvard men (Lodge, R.F. Kennedy); three vice-presidential hopefuls (Humphrey, Hatfield, McCarthy) are former college professors; Goldwater's wife's maiden name was Johnson; Lodge has stomach ulcers...
Some of the short descriptions are amusing. (Bobby Kennedy is termed an "avowed enemy of James R. Hoffa"). But even brevity is no excuse for such barbarities as the note which says Sargent Shriver "Insists that intellectuals should have a role in American life." And is it fair to say that Richard Nixon thinks the "U.S. goal must be free Cuba, free Soviet Union, free China"? Surely he has not abandoned the oppressed peoples of Eastern Europe or Tierra del Fuego...
Third, the commentator said that Johnson is extremely impressed by the job Shriver has done with the Peace Corps. His enthusiasm is increased by the fact that Bill D. Moyers--a 29-year old White House staff member whom Johnson greatly admires--actually wants to return to the Peace Corps, where he was second in command...
...Shriver's chief handicap is that he is not extremely well known and has never held elective office. Johnson understands this deficiency. He made Shriver director of the war on poverty partly to increase Shriver's reputation and political stock...
Whether Johnson chooses Shriver, then, depends on how desperately the President thinks he needs him to hold the Kennedy machine. And too, it depends on Johnson's assessment of Shriver's capacity to be a good President...