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...rumor that Mondale was about to crush the filibuster, Abourezk scoffed, "Ah, he wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting White House cars...
While the White House dawdled, the forces attacking Carter's energy plan and supporting deregulation mobilized skillfully. The pressure was unrelenting but not brutal. "There was no arm twisting," said North Dakota Democrat Quentin Burdick, a particularly vulnerable target because he was one of the fence sitters (he eventually voted for deregulation). "It was very gentlemanly...
...before a packed audience of all ages at the Washington, D.C., armory. By longstanding tradition, the opening was billed as Congressional Night at the Circus. Seldom at a loss for words, Humphrey kept up an authentic ringmaster's patter for half an hour as North Dakota Senator Quentin Burdick and Alaska Senator Ted Stevens plus 14 Representatives dressed as clowns paraded around the ring on elephants before the regular show. Perhaps noting the lack of donkeys, Senator Henry Jackson was a no-show. Instead he went to Circus America, the rival big top now playing the capital...
GOOD POLITICAL NOVELS will come out of the new politics. Too often "political" novels have been gossipy adventure stories with no involvement in either the theoretical or the gut issues of politics. It is no longer possible -- as it was in the heyday of Drury, Burdick, Uris, and Knebel -- to write such political escapism. For the political novel to become valuable, as writers like Sheed so clearly desire, it must live up to its own name by intensifying its political content...
...lineup last week: For Gray?Republicans Marlow Cook, Hiram Fong, Edward Gurney, Roman Hruska, Hugh Scott, Strom Thurmond and Democrat James Eastland. Against Gray?Democrats Birch Bayh, Quentin Burdick, Robert Byrd, Sam Ervin, Philip Hart, Edward Kennedy and John Tunney. Undecided?Republican Charles Mathias and Democrat John McClelland...