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Turning to the Judicial Branch for help, more than 20 Senators, including such fiscal conservatives as Mississippi's James Eastland and John Stennis, signed a brief asking a federal court to force Nixon to spend impounded high way trust funds, as demanded by the state of Missouri. North Carolina Senator Sam Ervin, the Senate's leading constitutional expert, declared that the Constitution gives "the power of the purse exclusively to Congress," and that presidential impounding of funds is "contemptuous" of both the Congress and the Constitution...
America's poorest state gave its seven electoral votes to Richard Nixon by a 78 per cent margin. Troglodyte James O. Eastland took 57 per cent of the vote and returns to the Senate to head the powerful Judiciary Committee...
Nixon has proved harmful to Republican office seekers in much more direct ways. In recent weeks, both Spiro Agnew and Richard Kleindienst visited Mississippi to sing the praises of Democratic Senator James Eastland, while never mentioning Gil Carmichael, the Republican who is running against him. Stunned by such a direct slap in the party's face, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker drafted a letter supporting Carmichael that was signed by 12 G.O.P. Senate colleagues, including Jacob Javits, Mark Hatfield and Charles Percy...
...Senators sought clarification from the White House and invited Peter Flanigan, President Nixon's top liaison aide with big business, to testify. But Attorney John W. Dean III, counsel to the President, declined on Flanigan's behalf, citing in a letter to Committee Chairman James O. Eastland "the principle that members of the President's immediate staff not appear and testify before congressional committees with respect to the performance of their duties." It is on such grounds that Presidential Assistant, Henry Kissinger, has avoided repeated invitations to testify before Congress...
...appointed a judge last summer, and renewed his request recently when Julius Hoffman of Chicago conspiracy trial fame retired, opening a vacancy in McLaren's home town. McLaren's name had to be rushed to the Senate to meet a deadline set by Judiciary Committee Chairman James Eastland for nominations to be acted on this year...