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...spent an hour and a half one afternoon with Vermont's George Aiken and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper, both Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who have been persistently critical of Nixon's policies. Next day the President invited another Senate critic, Massachusetts' Edward Brooke, to come by for a talk. In his most conciliatory gesture, Nixon appointed a new White House lobbyist in Congress...
Died. Clifford R. Hope, 76, longtime (1927-56) Republican Congressman from Kansas; following a series of strokes; in Garden City, Kans. As an articulate champion of the farmer, Hope was largely responsible for the passage of the Soil Erosion Act (1935), the Hope-Aiken price-support law (1948) and the Farm Credit...
...personnel acting "directly or indirectly" in support of Cambodian forces either on Cambodian territory or in Cambodian airspace. The amendment, originally introduced by Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church, had picked up an additional 30 cosponsors by last week, including Democratic Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and George Aiken, senior Republican on the Foreign Relations Committee...
...over to the White House late one afternoon last week; but he also issued invitations to the less prestigious, less dovish House Foreign Affairs Committee, and scheduled an earlier meeting with the House and Senate Armed Services committees as well. Fulbright and other Senators such as Vermont's George Aiken had planned a confrontation. Nixon deftly transformed it into a routine briefing...
Nixon failed to inform a single legislator, even in his own party, about the attack. It was an omission that raised more hackles than necessary. When G.O.P. Senator George Aiken finally got the news, he recalls, "I counted slowly?up to about 12,000." Finally, an hour before he went on television, Nixon gave 40 congressional leaders and other officials a preview of the speech. "You've got to take things as they are," he told them, attempting to illustrate his dilemma in Indochina with a personal anecdote. It concerned a young woman who once told him that his face...