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...years he has been one of the Senate's most effective members, in part because of his deft ability to draft bills with broad appeal and his powers of cloakroom persuasion. His range is indicated by two pieces of legislation that he considers to be major achievements: 1) an act creating a comprehensive federal policy on environmental protection, and 2) an amendment directing that future arms agreements with Russia do not leave the U.S. with inferior numbers of weapons. Critics point out that numbers alone are largely meaningless, but this hardly bothers Jackson...
Sick Man. Mills, once the canny master of the cloakroom, was slow to realize that the end had come. TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil reports that Mills' final perception of the situation came last week in a talk with Illinois Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a Ways and Means Committee man for nine years. Confessing that he had a serious problem, Mills took Rostenkowski into the chairman's private office, where he asked the Illinois lawmaker for a frank appraisal of where he stood...
That was putting it mildly. Throughout much of the nation, whenever they huddle in cloakroom, clubhouse or hotel lobby, Republicans are describing this fall's election prospects as "ominous" and "disastrous." Says a veteran state chairman: "This is the worst situation I've ever seen, and that includes 1936 and 1964. Watergate is having a devastating effect on the recruitment of candidates. Even precinct canvassers have had doors slammed in their faces." Another G.O.P. state chairman laments: "Watergate is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Everybody says it's going to be a bad year for Republicans...
Several conservative Republicans have already admitted outright that cloakroom talk of resignation has begun. Senator Milton Young (R-N.D.), told The Crimson Friday. "I've heard some talk of asking the president to resign in the Senate. If the president's position with the public continues to decline, I think it could happen...
...could detect a faint trace of that smell three or four years ago-but I don't now." In 1969 and 1971 he brashly challenged Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania for the Republican Senate leadership and lost; now he cautiously shrugs aside pointed teasing by colleagues in the Senate cloakroom that his work on the Watergate committee is a prelude to a bigger role...