When Gallup did its monthly poll in May, it asked, “Which one of the men listed on this card would you like to see take over the direction of the plans and policies of the Democratic Party during the next four years?” Edward M. Kennedy won by more than Muskie and Humphrey combined. “Which of these men do you admire?” asked Fortune in its poll of college students: Kennedy, number one; the president of the United States, number three. John Ehrlichman suggested they put a surveillance tail on Kennedy. On March 26, Nixon approved the idea. And now Edward M. Kennedy was feasting vulture like off the misfortune of Nixon’s first setback in Vietnam. That figured. It was how those Kennedys worked. Ted Kennedy is super-popular and it drives Nixon nuts. He decides to maintain his spying on him.