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...Dent softly denies all, saying that he wishes he had a fraction of the power attributed to him. "There's just a bunch of people over there at HEW," he told TIME Correspondent Loye Miller, "who, every time they see something coming they don't like, scream it's ole Strom Thurmond and Harry Dent." He insists that he serves only Richard Nixon, not Strom Thurmond, and that his real duties are mainly mundane matters of political coordination and patronage. One example: to steer Government legal work to Republican lawyers. "When I was practicing back in Columbia...
...Dent protests too much. While it is often impossible to measure the direct influence of a White House aide on a particular issue, Dent's impact has obviously been growing heavier. He is now Nixon's chief political-liaison man, replacing John Sears. Once an associate in Nixon's law firm, Sears is a New Yorker who has some rapport with the party's liberal wing. In the White House, however, Sears found that he had only limited access to Nixon and that two far more powerful aides, H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, undercut...
...Dent's first step toward Nixon's inner circle came during the Miami convention when he abandoned his original support of Ronald Reagan and helped Thurmond keep the South's delegates in line behind Nixon. Summoned to New York last December and offered a deputy counsel's job on the White House staff, Dent immediately accepted without consulting his family back in Columbia, S.C. "I knew what they'd say, so I just didn't give them a chance to argue." His pretty wife, Betty, and four children have remained in Columbia, resigning themselves...
Where these arduous efforts will lead Dent is a matter of conjecture. There has been talk of his returning to South Carolina next year to run for Governor or for the Senate later. For now, despite his complaints about the reports of his influence, he seems to be thoroughly enjoying White House life. These days his tone is sophisticated and statesmanlike: "I recognize that this country is bigger than the South and that the President has to have a stance that's national. The thing that would do me the most harm would be if I took...