DEMOCRATIC WOES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000200010106-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 16, 1999
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: October 12, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved For Release 1999/09/07 : CIA-RDP7
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Democratic Woes'
'177 Vemocf'afs of New TOM ale On R Mer
of a disaster day.
What is happening to them should be happen.
Ing in New Hampshire, not in the biggest, richest
state in the Union.
Said one disheartened campaign aide, "Every
time we think,we've reached bottom, something
worse happens."
Their ticket is headed by;two able men who
are totally at sea In politics, and -who have not
had time to do their homeewprk on the issues.
Their standard-begrer,' ltoiert M. Morgenthau,
former U. S. Attorney, l;i so thy that one Demo-
crat, who used to rate Ayerell Harriman as the
most introverted candidaite in New York history,.
said "Morgenthau makes Harriman seem like
Billy Graham."
Their candidate for the Senate is James B.
Donovan, the lawyer who' arranged the Powers
Abel exchah and is currently engaged in ne?
gotiations for the release of the prisoners taken
at the "$av of Pigs invagiori,~ the most unhappy
episode li enne y fore n policy. He began a
haphazar tl'r ve against~negmbent Sen. Javits,
Republican, five days ago, h+'Iorgenthau recently
accused Coy. Rockefeller of secretly planning new
taxes., Another member of the Democratic ticket,
Arthur Levitt, candidate for reglection as state
Controller and a man in a position to know,,
promptly said he had never heard anything
about it
President Kennedy, who knows that it will
not lose New York in 1964, came in to lend a ha'rtd
to the faltering fortunes of his party. His visit
resulted mainly in a spate of pictures showing
im shaking hands with Gov. Nelson Rockefeller,
MARY McGRORY
saorgentnau-s present rival, and very likely his
own two years hence.
Puotessionai politicians noted with despair
that Morgenthau was effortlessly elbowed out of
the Presidential car by a Congressman from
the Bronx.
This week Morgenthau lost a couple of days
of campaigning because he was home with a
virus.
So the Democratic spotlight shifted again to
Donovan, all extremely relaxed candidate who
keeps saying he dugs not need the job.
Donovan engaged "in, a. locally televised half-
hour debate with Sena ravits Tuesday night.
Donovan kept saying that President Kennedy
is "entitled" to a Democratic Senator from New
York, that he needs Donovan'c vote. Then he
went on to destroy his own thesis by pointing out
that Sen. Javits had' voted 74 per cent of the time
with the Administration.
Then he accused Sen. Javits :pf "wrecking"
President Kennedy's medical care program,
which came as news to zany of his listeners.
Sen. Javits explained that he had voted against
a medical care bill,,proposed by the then Sen.
Kennedy in 1960, but that last year he was co.
sponsor of the Administration bill.
'Sen. -LLJavitl5' usually of T'd'Us smile became a
little *re getuine, with every passage.
When it was over, and someone asked Sen"
Javits, in his dressing room,. who won, lie said
piously that "we. will know on Nov. 6."
Someone asked Donovan the same question,
as he sat in his dressing room a Corridor
He smiled in his jaunty fashion and said, "Is
there a question?" ii I
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Approved For Release 1999/09/07 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000200010106-8