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...this point Nixon was ready to concede the House, but he thought he could hold on to such Senators as John Stennis, James Eastland, Cotton and Nebraska's Carl Curtis to stem any tide of defection. He knew, however, that the first 24 hours would be crucial and that this period would be tough. After the cruise, Nixon sent word for the Cabinet to assemble next morning. He wanted to rally their continued support...
Outwardly undaunted, Nixon continued to court a conservative constituency. He invited Mississippi Senators James Eastland and John Stennis to the White House for breakfast. He staged a ceremony for Southern Senators and Congressmen as he signed a $100 million appropriation for Mississippi River flood-control projects. He addressed a Republican congressional dinner and hosted a farewell gathering for his departed aide Melvin Laird...
...letter to Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jaworski complained that his request for 27 tapes of specific presidential meetings and telephone calls had been denied by Nixon even though "there was no indication that any requested recording is either irrelevant to our inquiries or subject to some particularized (presidential) privilege." While grand juries can proceed without these tapes, Jaworski wrote, "the material is important to a complete and thorough investigation and may contain evidence necessary for any future trials." Jaworski reported that he had promised Nixon's chief Watergate counsel, James St. Clair...
...Stone ridiculed Mississippi's Senators Eastland and Stennis for blaming civil rights agitation on outside interference and communist conspiracy. He compared their attitude towards blacks to Secretary of State Dean Rusk's attitude towards Hanoi: "The theory in both cases is that all would be well if only the North let its neighbors alone." His incisive prose defuses the force of their paranoia: One almost expects to hear Eastland and Stennis ask how Washington can claim to be for peaceful coexistence and yet insist on supporting "wars of liberation" in the South, or accuse old Ho Chi Johnson of persisting...
...four conservative members are Edward Allen Tamm, 67, a Johnson appointee who once served as right-hand man to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; George E. MacKinnon, 67, a longtime acquaintance of Richard Nixon; Roger Robb, 66, a Nixon appointee who used to represent Senator James Eastland of Mississippi; and Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 54, a former U.S. Attorney in Houston and onetime counsel for the Kennecott Copper Corp...