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Lance presented himself as a wronged public servant, condemned as guilty by his critics and a sensation-bent press before he could fully set forth his own defense. Invoking the Bible and Abraham Lincoln, he rather grandiosely said that his ordeal was a test of the system by which the U.S. determines whether its high public officials merit their trusted positions. That turnabout, putting his inquisitors on the defensive and setting them to partisan bickering among themselves, was a remarkable achievement for Lance. He had sufficiently muddied up some of the allegations against him so that the joking question wagging...
...member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican Ted Stevens' sentiments were unclear). Among Lance's critics, Javits turned...
...weeks ago Carter was vigorously defending Lance ("Bert, I'm proud of you"). But the Budget Director's position deteriorated rapidly just before, during and immediately after the long Labor Day weekend. A trio of Senators played key roles: Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia; Connecticut Democrat Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee; and Charles Percy of Illinois, the committee's top Republican. They argued that prolonging Lance's travail not only would be futile, but could seriously impair the President's ability to promote such Administration priorities as the Panama Canal treaty and the energy program...
...York Times, the only paper to match the Post in its almost daily attention to Lance's troubles, was beaten to a few disclosures by its own columnist, William Safire. His relentless scrutiny of Lance's loans and insinuations about possible conflict of interests prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff to complain on July 25 that Lance was being "smeared from one end of the country to the other," a complaint that Ribicoff later retracted. The Times tried to catch up with Safire, but produced a stream of speculative, melodramatic stories. On Aug. 15, for instance, the Times described...
...becoming a liability, the White House this week is bracing itself for the new barrage of bad headlines that is virtually certain to result from the forthcoming round of congressional investigations. No major bombshells are expected, but the potential for further embarrassing questions is great. In the Senate, Abraham Ribicoffs Governmental Affairs Committee will make its fourth inquiry, encompassing Lance's confirmation hearing in January, into his fitness to serve as OMB director. The last hearing (TIME, Aug. 8) was a love feast; as a committee member later put it, Lance was given a "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval...