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They had advised him earlier to let this bill slide into law without his signature and now he was asking them about a veto -a veto on education funds, with school opening just weeks away in an election year. They laughed. But Mr. Nixon persisted, "Does anyone?" Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow raised his hand. "He's not up for re-election," one of the men from Capitol Hill said, but that was the end of the joking...
Glowing Words. After four days in Indochina, the group headed home -with a rest stop in Honolulu-while Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow wrote a glowing report of the success of the Cambodia invasion. His words were toned down before the team presented the report personally to the President. It called the Cambodia operation a certain short-term military success that helped ensure that U.S. troops would be withdrawn from South Viet Nam on schedule, or possibly even faster. The only dissenter was New Hampshire Senator Thomas J. Mclntyre, a Democrat, who said that the action had "widened...
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...
...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...