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POLITICAL MEDIA ANALYSIS October 14, 1972 24 Days Left THE PRESIDENT HAS SEEN Politics is not the dominant story today. Perhaps the major news leading all nets last night - is Administration administration of "difficulties" or obstacles remaining in the peace talks. RN, HAK, Haig and Rogers photo gets enormous coverage. Discussion is of possible stand-still cease- fire; there are dope stories about a coalition government and resistance of Thieu to such a scheme; also rumors of an agreement floating and, lastly, the theme that it is Hanoi not Washington that is under pressure to settle. Domestically, passage of revenue sharingets a major ride, leading Times and News today, and passage by the Senate of RN's ceiling with the restrictive Jordan Amendment -- is a big story of the day. POLITICS McGovern's story today is his charge of special favors "flowing like Niagara" in RN's Washington, and his program for maintaining ethics in the White House. The "corruption" charges leads McGovern's day along with the specifics of his program. Not an overwhelming story, though played well. He continuesto get negative polls around the country; according to Miss Mackin he has deliberately cooled his rhetoric; though his emotional Vietnam tape got a good television ride yesterday. Also of note. Occasional stories popping up of resignation and gloom in the McGovern camp. There are columns in print, and columns coming that are anti-McGovern's Vienam speech but he was not attacked heavily yesterday for it. Butz' charge that McGovern's election would be a "national disaster" got surprisingly good ride. Clearly, though, yesterday, hard news -- revenue sharing, ceiling, and RN-HAK, tend to dominate the papers and TV. McGovern's sidekick, Mr. Shriver, continues to make a buffoon of himself, with wild and silly charges about RN being the greatest "con man of all time" and such nonsense. Though exempt from attack previously, because of focus onthe top of the ticket, he may have become a vulnerable element. Yesterday, some nurses walked out when he turned a non-political forum into an attack on the President. THE PRESIDENT & VEEP -- RN gets excellent second-day stories on the turnout in Atlanta; the Veep got some fair to good inside coverage on his appearance before the Conservatives in New York, a philosophical attack on McGovern. His comments on bussing made one network (ABC) - and one network correspondent (Shoumacher) upset.