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Once the private celebration was over, Carter went to the White House press room to deliver a statement. "The people of the United States," he said, "owe a debt of thanks to the members of the U.S. Senate for their courageous action today in voting for the Panama Canal neutrality treaty. I am confident that the Senate will show the same courage and foresight when it considers the second treaty. This is a promising step toward a new era in our relationships with Panama and with all of Latin America." He singled out Byrd, Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker, Gerald...
...Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, who opposed the treaties but feels devoutly loyal to the Senate. He was informed that there were enough votes to ratify, but that all the Senators would be blamed by the opposition for casting the deciding vote to "give away the canal." Would Cannon help his fellow Senators out? He agreed to vote in favor. The leaders also sounded out West Virginia Senator Jennings Randolph, a wavering anti. Up for re-election this fall, Randolph was already being attacked on the issue by his opponent. Would he support the President? "Presidents come...
...became the Republican mayor of Omaha. Two years ago, seeing an opportunity for greater things, he turned Democrat and captured a seat in the U.S. Senate. He attracted little notice, however, until last month, when it became known that he was undecided about how to vote on the Panama Canal treaties and that a handful of undecided Senators would soon decide the issue. TIME Correspondent Neil Mac Neil reports the consequences...
...world surely changed a bit with the Panama Canal vote last week, and so did Jimmy Carter, his White House and Government. Carter shed some more of that evangelical sheen, orchestrating millions of dollars for a few votes, just like an oldtime pol. There are no cases of his grabbing a man by the lapels and demanding his vote, but at last he abandoned his "I understand your problems" approach to a wavering legislator. He kept up the pressure, in the language of the cloakroom-"I need your vote...
...know whether to start this piece with an American battleship dashing round the Horn in wartime, a biologist slicing the salivary gland of a female mosquito, a volcanic eruption killing 30,000 people . . . or the vote of the United States Senate last week on the Panama Canal...