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Senate Republicans grew more discomfited by the day. Robert Dole of Kansas tried to work out an understanding on the Cooper-Church amendment, which would cut off funds for military activity in Cambodia by July 1. Nixon adamantly opposed Cooper-Church. Of the President's attitude, Dole said: "We who have gone to the well a number of times are saying to him that this isn't the time for confrontation [between the White House and the Senate]. It's a time for compromise...
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...
Hence the White House statement widened a dispute that could have been minimized. The Republican Senate leadership was prepared to try to modify Cooper-Church to make it less restrictive. A variation drawn by Minority Leader Hugh Scott would change the amendment so that the President could send forces back into Cambodia if he found it necessary to do so-and if he consulted congressional leaders. After first encouraging this tactic, the White House backed away from it. much to Scott's embarrassment. Republican Senators were irate. Said New Jersey's Clifford Case: "If the President stands...
...stake really are politics and psychological momentum. In a period when he is besieged by protest, the President cannot afford an official Senate rebuke, even if the House modified it enough to make it meaningless in material terms. Also, Cooper-Church and McGovern-Hatfield serve as rallying points for the moderate majority of the protest movement. In the upcoming fall congressional elections, the way legislators voted on the amendments will also represent tests by which candidates may be judged on the war issue. From the Administration's viewpoint, then, it would have been far better to keep the amendments...
Galleries first came to SoHo two years ago when Paula Cooper opened her cosy aerie up three flights of creaky, splintery stairs. More recent arrivals include Max Hutchinson, a peripatetic Australian; Reese Palley, an Atlantic City Boardwalk porcelain salesman; and smooth-talking, Brooklyn-born Ivan Karp. Uptown dealer Richard Feigen maintains a downtown branch in SoHo, and two more uptown power houses-Castelli and Emmerich-recently announced plans to open outlets in the neighborhood...