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...Democrats have been hobbled in their anti-Agnew campaigning by a lack of prominent national figures not preoccupied with their own reelection, but they have answered fire on occasion. Sargent Shriver labeled Agnew "this nation's great divider," and the venerable John McCormack, who is about to retire as'Speaker of the House, recently accused the Administration of "playing on people's fears and dodging the issues." Said McCormack: "In all of my experience in campaigns, I have never witnessed such wholesale, patently contrived efforts to smear an entire party as that practiced by the Republicans...
...Sargent Shriver has already visited 17 states and will appear in 19 more on behalf of Democratic congressional candidates. Though he has never held an important elective office, he has obviously begun to have ideas about starting at the top. "I don't dwell on the presidency," he insists, "but I don't exactly dismiss it, either...
...star, George C. Scott, may not be entirely the President's favorite actor any more. Scott, who voted for Nixon in 1968, has defected. He has joined the Democratic Party's Committee on Congressional Leadership for the Future, promising the group's head, Sargent Shriver, that he will be available as a spsaker and fund raiser for Democratic candidates in this fall's congressional campaigns. The word of Scott's apostasy went around in Washington, and almost immediately, as if to welcome him, Lyndon Johnson sent a request from the Pedernales asking...
AFTER the murders, the accidents and Chappaquiddick, it was only a minor footnote. But for the Kennedys, bad news never ends. Into the old courthouse in Barnstable, Mass., last week marched the vanguard of the next Kennedy generation: Robert Jr. and his cousin, Robert Sargent Shriver III, both 16. The charge: juvenile delinquency by virtue of possessing marijuana...
...July 10, the sons of Robert Kennedy and Eunice Shriver allegedly joined several other boys at a small pot party in a garage near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannisport. Those present included an undercover agent, reportedly a young state trooper posing as a local cab driver named "Andy." He was only doing his job; the drug problem in Cape Cod's Barnstable County has reached the point where the court hears three or more such cases a day. Based on Andy's evidence, the Kennedy boys faced a bleak possibility: a maximum five years' confinement in the state house...