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...same aggressiveness which enabled him to work his way through Stanford and which won him the Navy cross, Rep. Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey (R-Calif.) has now applied to the presidential fight. Never subtle or sophisticated, McCloskey has spoken out viciously against the present Administration with relentless consistency. He calls the Nixon trip to Peking, "grandiose gimmickry", the Nixon Administration "embittered, hostile, negativist" and party loyalists, "criminals and prostitutes...
Boxer-like stance, jutting chin, sharply carved features, set on a square face make McCloskey's appearance every bit as vehement as his presidential thrust into New Hampshire--an impassioned vendetta against the Nixon Administration. "I am just tired of being lied to by members of the executive branch and having information concealed, and I think they have fallen into the habit of lying and not just to the people and the press, but to Congress...
...investigation: "I'll tell you where I'd draw the line. I'd go back to George Washington who was asked to give up the information on the disastrous St. Clair expedition into Indian territory..." Unfortunately, in the hard game of politics, history must take second place to necessity: McCloskey had to sell his favorite Benedict Arnold portrait to gain needed campaign funds...
...greatest problem is money. California industrialist Norton Simon is his sole major contributor, coming with around $40,000. McCloskey has had to turn elsewhere to supplement these funds. An ad in a recent New York Times proclaimed: "Pete McCloskey would rather have his campaign financed by 10,000 people who want to participate directly than by a few big spenders. It's an old-fashioned, Democratic idea...
...McCloskey refuses to be intimidated by his extremely poor showing in the New Hampshire polls which show him at 6 per cent as opposed to Nixon's 70 per cent. He recalls that at the outset of his 1967 Congressional contest, Shirley Temple Black polled 80 per cent while he showed only ten per cent; he went on then to win the congressional race. Once again undaunted by the odds against him, McCloskey has spent 29 campaign days in New Hampshire dashing from coffee klatches to tea parties--sometimes five or more a day--trying to spread the McCloskey name...