WASHINGTON WHISPERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000200920122-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 1999
• Sequence Number: 122
• Publication Date: April 27, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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U.:~. NEWS AND
WORLD REPORT;
APR 2 7 1964
Washington. Whispers-
Henry Cabot Lodge, Ambassador to
South Vietnam, is scheduled to win
the Oregon presidential-preference.
primary on May 15 with the help of'
that State's Republican organization.
The only chance of Oregon Gover-
nor Mark Hatfield to get second place
on the 1964 Republican ticket is to.
help stop Goldwater and to favor an.
Easterner to head' the ticket.
Ambassador Lodge does not plan to,
return from his Saigon post before
the Republican National Convention:
to seek the nomination. Friends say if
Mr. Lodge did so it would imply (1),
that his job is finished, or (2) that he
disagrees with US. policy in South
Vietnam. Either position would be
awkward.
STATINTL
William Fulbright, Arkansas Sena-
tor and chairman of the Senate For-
eign Relations Committee, is reported
to have had a White House hint
that he might be in line for the
Secretaryship of State if his vote is
(cast in favor of shutting off Senate
debate on the civil-rights issue.
Some foreign diplomats are describ-
ing President Johnson as "heavy-
handed" in his dealing with foreign
affairs. Said one: "Your President:
seems to be rather ruthless and un-
sentimental about foreign relations,,
with node of the late President Ken-
nedy's grasp or interest in historical;
perspective or niceties of relations."
Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, has
had a number of offers, including'
.l
the presidency of more than one
'important university, if he should re-.
'.spond to an urge to return to private !
life after next. Noveinber.
,.within six weeks is described by top'
l;officials as ? exactly-100: per .cent in:
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A published report that Thomas
Mann, in charge of Latin-American'
affairs for 1U. S., had opposed early
recognition of the military take-over
in Brazil and that the State Department looks ? for a counterrevolution