NEWS CONFERENCE 897

Q. Do you have any information on how well Wallace will or will
not do in Maryland?

A. I don't think he's going to do nearly as well as most people think
he is.

Q. You've probably been asked this before, but in a Nixon-Hum-
phrey race whom do you think he would hurt?

A. I would have to guess that probably he would hurt Nixon more
than he would Humphrey. On the other hand I don't think the de-
gree — the severity — of the hurt is as bad as most Republicans would
think, because there are still a lot of Democrats around who just
can't bear to pull a Republican lever; and they may go with Hum-
phrey given the escape valve of Wallace. They may go there, if they
don't agree with Humphrey's policies.

Q. Do you think he might hurt Nixon more because they are more

ideologically comfortable together?

A. No, I think that much of the written opinion today attempts to

portray them that way and some of the public are blase enough to

accept it.

Q. Do you think Mr. Nixon's positions or Mr. Humphrey's are

closer to Governor Wallace?

A. I think you'd have to ask me issue by issue, Mr. Weiss. You

know this question of broad philosophy, over-simplification —

Q. On racial matters.

A. On racial matters. Again I think you have to get more specific

than saying racial matters. What part of racial matters?

Q. Open housing.

A. I would say that Mr. Nixon is certainly not against open housing
from my conversations with him, so I'd have to say they are about
equal on that one.

Q. Job opportunity?

A. That's the same. I don't see any difference there either.

Q. Generosity of welfare grants?

A. Now let's regroup that word a minute. Generosity or waste?

Q. Well that's up to you, sir.

A. It's an impossible question to cope with, because you can talk
in two different contexts. What some might call generous other
people would call outrageously frugal and others would call waste,
so I don't know what you mean by that.