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...extent, it is. After plumbing the depth, of public support for Carswell, Kirk and Gurney invited the judge to Gurney's Winter Park, Fla., home and persuaded him to make the race. Then, says Gurney, "We decided to run it 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...
Though he maintained he had not spoken to Nixon personally, Carswell said: "You can be sure of one thing. I would not have left the Fifth Circuit Court unless I felt I had a friend somewhere"-presumably Dent. This left the appearance of a White House broken promise...
...over the seven seats needed for the Republican Senate control he wants. Putting Carswell on the ballot would also allow Cramer to retain his House seat and the 16 years of seniority that go with it. And certainly so astute a politician as Richard Nixon would not allow Harry Dent to go that far out on a limb without his permission...
...Nixon's spokesman claims there was "no presidential involvement" in the Carswell candidacy. He confirmed that Dent had been informed of Carswell's plans, but says that was the limit of the White House's role. It is difficult to believe that Nixon, who built his comeback on party loyalty, would allow Cramer to be so undercut by Claude Kirk. It was Cramer who helped hold the Florida delegation for Nixon in the 1968 convention, after Kirk had switched to Nelson Rockefeller...
...Colorado early in 1967, ten states have moderately liberalized their century-old abortion laws. Even so, the new laws have hardly made an appreciable dent in the number of illegal abortions, estimated to be as high as 1,500,000 annually. Dissatisfied with what they regard as tokenism, abortion reformers have since mounted campaigns in several states to abolish all penalties for abortions, provided they are performed by licensed physicians in approved hospitals. Their first success came in Hawaii (TIME, March 9), followed by another in Maryland, where the legislature has sent Governor Marvin Mandel a bill similar...