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...year of the open book. Incumbents and challengers alike are distributing their tax returns and net worth statements - everything, including accounts of the egg money, it seems - to prove their honesty. When one prospective Democratic challenger made public ten years' worth of tax returns, Republican Senator Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma went to the Internal Revenue Service bent on novel oneupmanship. Audit my returns for the last ten years, he proposed, and we'll announce the results...
...Oklahoma City IRS office turned Bellmon down for sound bureaucratic reasons: the agents were too busy audit ing current returns. Despite Bellmen's good intentions, the IRS decision was probably wise; certifying the Senator as clean could have set a precedent for an expanding search for seals of approval...
...primarily concerned with making sure that Nixon stays away from their campaigns-the farther the better. The Associated Press questioned the eleven G.O.P. Senators who are running for reelection, and only one said that he planned to ask the President for campaign help. He was Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, who served as a national campaign chairman for Nixon in 1968. Oregon's Bob Packwood said that "most people would now regard close association with the Administration as the kiss of death...
Kennedy defended the memo as routine for such a tour and said that the three Republicans, Murphy, Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma and William Saxbe of Ohio, had been sent copies. But the three said they had not received them before they left on the trip. Although committee staffs habitually do spadework prior to such tours, the Kennedy staff went further into detail than most and was blunter than it might have been in laying down conclusions and stage directions before the trip even began. Senator Ted Stevens and Representative Howard W. Pollock, Alaska Republicans, stuck with the tour and somewhat...
Oklahoma. "Basically I am a conservative," explains Republican Henry Bellmon, "but I am sure as hell not a John Bircher or an isolationist." His political acumen made Bellmon, now 47, the first Republican Governor (1963-67) in Oklahoma's 61-year history, and now sends him to the Senate. Mindful that he overturned able Democratic Veteran Senator Mike Monroney with the argument that Monroney, 66, had lost touch with his grass roots, Rancher Bellmon is not likely to spend all his time in Washington...