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...Paul Trible of Virginia and Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont were in black tie, restlessly unable to attend a social function. Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, 74, decided to go home and go to bed. Howard Baker in effect threw in the towel. He asked the Senate to reconsider the Gorton compromise. "I did not support it, and I do not support it," he said. "I don't like what I am doing." But Baker argued that the Senate must try to pass some resolution and then fight out the issue in conference committee meetings with the House...
...roll call on the revived Gorton measure began. Both Domenici and Baker, who had watched his leadership vanish for the moment, voted no. But Republicans William Cohen, Thad Cochran and Stevens switched from their earlier opposition and voted yes. The count stood at 50 opposed, 49 for the resolution; it appeared lost. Domenici, now weary of the battle and determined to preserve the budget process, dramatically changed his vote. The compromise passed...
...Soviet menace. Dan Quayle of Indiana gaped at the President. "I found it hard to believe he was saying that," Quayle commented later. "My state is conservative, but people don't see the Soviet threat. They just ask, 'Why do we need these expenditures?' " Slade Gorton told the President that the voters in his home state of Washington wanted cuts in the defense budget. Reagan shot back: "When are we going to have enough guts to do what is right instead of what is popular?" But even John Tower of Texas, a staunch hawk, came away insisting...
...their own suggestions. Warner proposed reducing the size of the armed forces by up to 7%. Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico argued that military spending could be cut by 5%, bringing it down to the growth rate put forward by Reagan two years ago. Slade Gorton of Washington suggested freezing defense spending at the fiscal 1983 level, $209 billion...
PREPARED AT: Groton School, Gorton, Mass.; Stowe, Buckinghamshire, England...