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...Barrett, the story fell into three parts. The cover on President Nixon and the vote's significance for his embattled Administration was written by Associate Editor Ed Magnuson and researched by Deborah Murphy. The box on the lives and careers of Judge Carswell and the other rejected nominee, Clement Haynsworth, was written by Contributing Editor Peter Stoler. The second box on the Senators at the center of this historic confrontation was written by Associate Editor Keith Johnson. Both were researched by Genevieve Wilson. Says Sidey: "This was an old-fashioned power conflict between Hill and White House - the classic...
...signs of the zest for political roughhousing that was his hallmark in the 1940s and '50s, Nixon decided to slug it out with the Senate. The conflict that he thus launched could have greater impact on his Administration ?and on the country?than the Senate's rejection of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and George Harrold Carswell...
...selection of Judge Blackmun, who is a native of Minnesota, is in line with Nixon's pledge last week that his next nominee would be from outside of the South. Nixon contended then that his first two nominees, Clement L. Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina and G. Harrold Carswell of Florida were not confirmed because they were Southerners...
Crank Up. The fact that the Administration had so much at stake had already deprived the nomination's opponents of the backing of the two top Republican leaders, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan, who had been instrumental in defeating Clement Haynsworth. Without that leadership, the few remaining G.O.P. liberals had to scramble among themselves to find an anti-Carswell standardbearer. The result was the emergence of Brooke, the Senate's lone black, as an effective leader of the liberal bloc...
...someone else. The fact that other black kids with "socalled legitimate beginnings" teased him. Jackson recalls, made him determined to succeed. His mother later married a janitor, and young Jesse often accompanied him on his night duties. One office his stepfather cleaned belonged to a Greenville lawyer named Clement Haynsworth...