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...nothing to do with their selection. Most of them have passed through a rigorous Darwinian selection of one election after another, but the number of successful traits is surprisingly large. There are people who play the game scientifically, like win simply because they're nice, sincere guys-Kennedy or Dominick; there are people who Ribicoff or Ionize; and there are politicians like McIntyre or McGovern whom fortune has favored...
...government course." Some freshmen, like George McGovern, acquired it: "I used to find handshaking awkward, but now I've developed a special capacity for it;" others took to it immediately. McIntrye has pleasant memories of "going up into the countryside with gals knocking wood with just a chemise," and Dominick proudly tells of the hours he spent "glad-handing" (20 hours a day, 7 days a week by his own estimate). Politics, for these Senators, is people, not issues...
...Peter Dominick (R-Colo.), a conservative, sees his bill to provide 30 per cent tax credit up to $600 for costs of tuition and books for a college student as a "means for encouraging more effort at the private level." His administrative assistant, Walter Morgan, said Dominick does not view the bill as a replacement for the NDEA and noted that Dominick voted for NDEA as a congressman; he opposed a bill for grant aid to students...
...year. Another massive deficit lies ahead in fiscal 1964, even without a tax cut. Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, recently said that "sharp reductions in federal expenditures should precede any major reduction in tax rates." Colorado's Republican Senator-elect Peter H. Dominick declared last week that he "can't see any basis for reducing revenues without reducing spending at the same time...
There is nothing vague about Peter Dominick's philosophy: he is a fulltime, working conservative who stands for less government and less spending. Said he of his opponent's record on spending bills: "The guy I'm running against voted for every one of the cotton-picking, things." That opponent was Democratic Senator John Carroll, a 100% liberal who edged in by 2,770 votes six years ago, later lost votes by putting his daughter Diane on his congressional payroll at $12,500 a year while she attended Georgetown University Law School. Carroll, a fumbling campaigner...