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 and who are friendly to you but are not likely to respond to being told of your plans with a pledge of support. This includes leaders of the major labor unions and politically active national organizations, curtain newspaper and magazine publishers, certain Democratic members of Congress, some of the Democratic Governors and key Democratic activists. These are persons that you should inform as a matter of courtesy in hopes of winning their open support. But, more realistically, our goal here will be to main— tain their friendship, have them regard your candidacy seriously, and keep them from being antagonistic to your effort because they

weren't told of your plans or didn't know enough about you.

The people I am talking about in this group are A1 Berkan. Mike Mansfield, Katherine Graham, Carl Albert, Joe Crangle and others of this sort.

And while you need to begin contacting the people in the first group very soon, you can wait until November to talk with the people in this group. The period between the November elections

and the Charter Conference will provide you with a good opportunity to spend a week in Washington and see nany of these pe0ple. I ' would not see your telling them about your early announcement. but’ mainly letting them know that you are firmly committed to making the race and are in it for the duration. Some will be difficult to see personally and can be called the week prior to your actual announce-

ment.