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...there were indications that Carswell's announcement had caught the White House by surprise and might hurt G.O.P. chances rather than help them. For Carswell's candidacy threatens to tear the Florida party apart in a bitter primary contest with Representative William Cramer, a tough, conservative G.O.P. veteran in the House. Cramer, who already had President Nixon's blessing for the race, stoutly refused to bow out. Last July, he said, Nixon called him to the White House and said: "Bill, the Senate needs you, the country needs you, and I need you." Added Cramer: "The President...
...Carswell candidacy was a coup for Florida's flamboyant Republican Governor, Claude Kirk, who sees in it an opportunity to boost his own sagging chances for reelection. Not only would Carswell's popularity in Florida help Kirk at the polls, but his nomination would eliminate Cramer, Kirk's longtime rival for control of the state G.O.P. It would also help Gurney, fearful of the powerful Cramer's rivalry in the Senate. Cramer dismissed the Carswell race as "just another one of Claudius' [Kirk's] circus acts...
...past Harry Dent," the South Carolinian who is Nixon's chief political adviser for the South. Gurney says that Dent and Rogers C.B. Morton, the Republican national chairman, bought the idea. But Morton flatly denies it. When Dent called Morton, seemingly trying to get him to ask Cramer to step aside for Carswell, Morton says he refused. Later, in an unusually harsh statement for a supposedly neutral party chairman, Morton threw his arms around Cramer and denounced the Kirk-Gurney tactics as "unconscionable...
...Last fall when he was elected captain of the 1969 football team, John Cramer said, "We should be very good next year, especially on offense." Cramer cannot legitimately be criticized for naivete because the outlook really was good. Nor is it appropriate to throw any more barbs at a beleaguered team. But it is interesting to note that while people were throwing about cheery predictions for the football team last fall and even this fall, almost nothing was heard about what might become of the cross country or soccer teams. As it turns out, both finished regular season play undefeated...
...Though Cramer had to settle for honorable mention after Ernie Babcock of Dartmouth and Jim Gallagher of Yale made first team he was one of 11 college seniors cited Monday for scholastic achievement. The National Football Foundation and the Hall of Fame selected Cramer and Penn's George Joseph from the Ivy League...