McCarthy to Speak in Cambridge; May Announce Presidential Plans

The presidential campaign of Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) may begin at the Hotel Continental early Saturday evening.

McCarthy backers, many of whom will be gathered in Boston this weekend for the National College Young Democrats Convention, are organizing a McCarthy for President rally outside the Continental at 6:45 p.m. with the national press in attendance.

The Minnesota Senator along with John Kenneth Galbraith, national chairman of the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), will address a Y.D. Convention banquet Saturday evening. McCarthy could announce according to several reliable sources close to the Senator, that he will challenge President Johnson for the 1968 Democratic Presidential Nomination.

Two weeks ago McCarthy said that he would make a decision on his 1968 presidential bid within "three to four weeks." He has been privately urged to run by leaders of the "Dump Johnson" movement.

Those leaders will be at the convention this weekend. Robert Vaughn, co-chairman of Dissenting Democrats, Allard K. Lowenstein, co-chairman of Conference of Concerned Democrats, Martin Shephard of the Citizens for Kennedy group, and Richard Goodwin, former aide to President Kennedy who has been closely associated with dump Johnson forces recently, will speak Saturday to the Young Democrats.

Dennis R. Kanin '68, chairman of the Mass, College Young Democrats, feels that the convention may pass a resolution Sunday urging Senator McCarthy to run. The national Y.D.'s took a stand in the fall of 1965 asking President Johnson to end the war in Vietnam, and have been battling with the National Democraic Committee over the right to dissent within the party for a year.

The convention will also vote Sunday on a new national chairman. Thomas A. O'Brien, an executive board member of the Harvard Law and Graduate School Young Democrats, is one of the prime candidates. Kanin describes O'Brien "as the most pro-McCarthy" of the major candidates for the Y.D. chairmanship.