Who's for Whom

P: Mamie Eisenhower, reported her husband to a friend, is all out for Richard Nixon because she likes Pat. "Why," said Ike with a rocketing arm motion, "when Mamie thinks of Jackie Kennedy in the White House she goes 'Ssss!'"

P: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller offered up his first-born son to seal his new-found enthusiasm for Dick Nixon; Spanish-speaking Rodman, 28, will head a drive to turn out New York's Puerto Rican and Negro votes for the G.O.P. ticket.

P: Wallaces Farmer, polling rural Iowa, found 49% leaning toward the Nixon-Lodge ticket, 32% toward Kennedy-Johnson, and 19% still on the fence. Meanwhile, at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, the Prairie Farmer took its time-tested sampling of visiting farmers, reported 1,404 for Nixon, 784 for Kennedy, 206 undecided.

P: Of 1,133 summer students voting in a University of Colorado mock election, 600 wanted Nixon and 517 Kennedy. Nixon got 69% of California, captured the Midwest with 61%, knocked off the solid South with 60%. Kennedy got 60% of New Yorkers, carried the East and Southwest.

P:Kennedy-hating James Riddle Hoffa announced in Washington that he gave $1,000 to the opponent of one of his two most detested Congressmen: Georgia Democrat Phil Landrum, who, with Michigan's Republican Robert P. Griffin, authored last session's Teamster-haltering labor bill. In Lawrenceville, Ga., Landrum's primary opponent, F. Quill Sammon Jr., denied knowledge of Hoffa's grand offer. Wailed Sammon, trying to wipe off the kiss of death: "If Hoffa does want to help me, that's a heck of a way for him to do it, by saying he is for me."

P: The Houston Post, edited by former (1953-55) Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby, declared early (as it did in 1952 and 1956) for the Republican candidate.

P: The 170-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. general board, after a hearty lunch in the presidential room of Washington's Statler Hilton Hotel, officially endorsed the Democratic presidential ticket. Lone holdout: Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Sleeping Car Porters, who argued there was little difference between Kennedy and Nixon, suggested that Labor form its own third party.

P: Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, clearly Dick Nixon's idea of a political albatross, stubbornly refused to go away. In Salt Lake City, Benson--once a Rockefeller partisan--said he was strongly for Nixon as "the candidate who will be best for America." Talk of Nixon repudiating him, said Benson, was "crazy."

P: Americans for Democratic Action, who like Jack Kennedy but have been harshly critical of Lyndon Johnson, found a way out of the quandary. The A.D.A. national board issued a statement calling for support of John F. Kennedy and "the Democratic ticket."

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