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    "ocrText": "14\nPOLITICS\nPhillips doubts Bush and RN didn't discuss W'gate at last meeting.\n\"If they didn't, that'd be like Custer planning Little Big Horn campaign\nw/out mentioning the Indians. Fact is that evil spirit of W'gate has\nGOP critically surrounded, and even if RN and staff don't see sky about\nto darken w/war arrows, the rest of the troops\nare scared right\ndown to their sphincters. 11 Phillips notes GOP faces \"once-in-a decade\ndevastation\" in big states from NY to Calif. Devoid of W'gate, \"GOP\nMCs face threat of unemployment and general 6-yr fatigue w/Admin.\nBut W'gate is the linchpin, the clincher, the potential hangman's knot\nfor marginal GOPs from MCs to County Court Commissioner. 11 Further\nespecially clear in\ntrend of low GOP turnout was/normally GOP suburbs in 173. And there's\na chance that '74 could turn into a referendum on RN- \"and if his\npopularity is still way, way down, such a plebiscite would devastate\nGOP. Consequently, a growing number of GOP think GOP would be\nabsolved by RN's departure and replacement by Ford. If GOP MCs\nare still panicky about party and a personal survival after\nholidays,\nthen RN, unlike Custer, may come under intense pressure to resign, \"\nconcludes Phillips.\nNoting Rocky's strong backing from labor and his \"intimate\"\nfriendship w/Meany, Riesel asserts \"his abandonment of gov for\nWH campaign hits Dems a more smashing karate blow that it does\nReagan and JBC. If Rocky wins '76 GOP nomination, Dems' basic\ninfrastructure, meaning the labor machine, splits. \" Nor does\nRiesel think a Rocky move to right would strain or break this friend-\nship because most of labor is on the right and large numbers \"disagree\nw/campaign to impeach RN. 11\nRipon Forum asserts Sargent's re-election problems are of his\nown making for he's \"not been a GOP's GOP\" and that's cost him \"a\nsteady erosion\" of GOP faithful who've seen \"seedy\" Dem hacks get\npatronage. The erosion's cut deep, w/GOP Chrm. Wahlrob whom\nSargent keeps trying unsuccessfully to unseat -promising an informal\nendorsement convention in '74 which will be short on Sargent enthu-\nsiasm. Wahlrob's most legit grievance and Sargent's most dangerous\nliability is the relentless fund-raising $500, 000 worth -- since '70\nby Sargent Comm. Normally much of it might have gone to State GOP\nand hard-pressed GOP condidates. Final straw was cancellation of\nState Comm. fundraiser w/Rocky because it conflicted w/ 1 of 4 hitherto\nsecret Sargent fundraisers. Press and Common Cause are now hounding\nSargent about this \"ceaseless money lust\" and the tactics used to satiate\nit, says Ripon Forum. Reportedly 2 state officials have been raising\nfunds and such exposure's hurt Sargent's \"he-may-not-be-right-but-\nhe's-honest\" image, an image also hurt by report that sporting goods\nstore Sargent owns has been selling Sat. nite specials."
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