Maggie's List

Maine's Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith is a woman with a mind--and a tongue. Last week, in an interview with the Boston Globe's Washington correspondent Wilfred C. Rodgers, she talked with an audacity that few successful male politicians would dare. She named her candidates for the 1964 Republican national ticket, listed her Cabinet and some sub-Cabinet preferences, and threw in a couple of Supreme Court nominations for good luck. Maggie's list:

> For President and Vice President, New York's Nelson Rockefeller and Arizona's Barry Goldwater, in that or reverse order. Senator Smith classifies herself as more conservative than Rocky, more liberal than Barry. But she thinks that both have the fighting qualities it will take to beat Jack Kennedy. Says she: "They may disagree on some things, but they do it openly. And more important, they agree on the necessity to firm up the backbone of the U.S.--and right now there is nothing more vital to the people of America than this."

> Secretary of State, Vermont's G.O.P. Senator George Aiken, who "would know how to keep from offending our closest neighbor, Canada."

> Secretary of Defense, Georgia's Carl Vinson, a Democrat and chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

> Secretary of Agriculture, North Dakota's Senator Milton Young, "a Republican in whom farmers have confidence."

> Secretary of Labor, James Suffridge, president of the Retail Clerks International Association. "I don't know what his politics are, but he and his union judge members of Congress on their actual voting records, rather than for their political affiliations."

> Attorney General, Philadelphia Lawyer Bernard Segal, chairman of the Federal Judiciary Committee of the American Bar Association--"a man who when he went before the Supreme Court would not be arguing his first case before a court."

> Secretary of the Interior, Oregon's Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, who "not only moves forward with vigor, but does it in a manner that is not offensive."

> Secretary of the Treasury, Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, "the foremost champion of sound fiscal policy."

> Secretary of Commerce, Charles Percy, chairman of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co., who would "provide dynamic youth and tremendous business experience."

> Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Dr. Frances Kelsey, who prevented the marketing of crippling thalidomide in the U.S.

> Postmaster General, Kansas' G.O.P. Senator Frank Carlson, who would run the department on an "efficient, businesslike basis."

> Ambassador to the United Nations, New York's Senator Jacob Javits.

> Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, New York's Senator Kenneth Keating, who was "so right when the Kennedy CIA was so wrong" about Cuba.

> To fill the first vacancy on the Supreme Court, Mississippi's Democratic Senator John Stennis--a "deeply respected former judge who would bring the highest tribunal an understanding of the racial problem in the South that has too long been missing." To fill the second vacancy, William Hastie or Thurgood Marshall, both circuit judges and both Negroes, "to give the court a balance of understanding on the other side of the racial problem."

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