Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is almost a built-in corrective to presidential isolation, argues Bryce Harlow. As his Administration wears on, every President gets into trouble and he begins to feel cloistered?and the inner circle expands as he reaches out for fresh opinion. There is already evidence of this in Nixon's Washington. John Mitchell, the patron of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell, recently expressed his concern at "the amount of popular cynicism about the Supreme Court." Before a group of his own restive civil rights lawyers, he pointed proudly to his department's accomplishments for Southern blacks...
Amended Amendment. By week's end there was no substantive compromise in sight. A round of constant consultation, involving the amendment's authors−Republican John Sherman Cooper and Democrat Frank Church−Minority Leader Hugh Scott, Laird and Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow, ended with a modification in the amendment's preamble. The original text included the passage: "In order to avoid involvement of the U.S. in a wider war in Indochina and to expedite the withdrawal of American forces from Viet Nam . . ." The revised opening reads: "In concert with the declared objective of the President...
...that morning, the White House was getting desperate. Liaison men under Bryce Harlow began telephoning every Republican who might waver. They tried to convince each one that he was the key to victory for Carswell: "You're the one. You make the difference." Incredibly, some, like Maryland's Charles Mathias, had been ignored until then. There was now great alarm in the White House, and the President was frantic for information. Senator Dole called Nixon Tuesday night. "How does it look?" the President asked. "Rough," said Dole. "It hinges on two Senators, Mrs. Smith and Marlow Cook...
...unhappy with Carswell's contradictory testimony about his role in incorporating a segregated Tallahassee country club, one of her close confidants let the White House know that she was "all right" on Carswell. Just before the Senate vote, Mrs. Smith learned that Administration operatives, particularly White House Aide Bryce Harlow, were using her favorable stand to lobby Republican waverers. The Congress has no fury like Mrs. Smith's when she feels that her senatorial independence has been violated. Seething, but outwardly as serene as the fresh rose she wears each day, Mrs. Smith sat quietly until...
...Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward, "is in tune with the reaction and quite accommodating to it." The White House greeted questions about the segregationist amendments with ambivalence. When Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott, for example, tried to head off the Stennis amendment with a more innocuous rider, Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow sent around a note saying, "Your amendment is Administration language." But, Harlow added, "other approaches would also accord with the President's basic objective-racial equality." The "other approach" was that of John Stennis...