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Gone were the building blocks of tightly controlled state delegates answerable to political bosses, to old-line party discipline, to organized labor. Gone were the tightlipped, gravel-voiced party barons from the tiers of the New Jersey, New York and Illinois delegations. Gone were the trappings that moved Will Rogers to describe conventions as "the Fourth of July of American politics." One waited for the pipe organ to sound, for the delegates to pour into the aisles, for state banners held aloft to parade the hall...
Prankish. The delegates maintained an appealing independence, even from their nominee. They insisted on nominating eight candidates for Vice President, including not only Eagleton but also Alaska's Senator Mike Gravel, former Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody and Texas State Representative Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold. By the time the roll call finally began, the delegates were in a prankish mood, casting ballots for TV's Archie Bunker, Martha Mitchell and CBS-TV's Roger Mudd. It was, said Mankiewicz, "like the last day of school." Because the clerk misheard a name, one vote was even recorded temporarily for Mao Tse-tung. Finally...
...speak, as one of the nation's most striking new folk talents. But he is still singing the blue-collar blues. His leisurely, deceptively genial songs deal with the disillusioned fringe of Middle America, hauntingly evoking the world of fluorescent-lit truck stops, overladen knickknack shelves, gravel-dusty Army posts and lost loves. In a plangent baritone that makes him sound like a young Johnny Cash, he squeezes poetry out of the anguished longing of empty lives...
...Members of Congress or their aides can be questioned at trials or by grand juries on any matters other than those "that are part and parcel of the legislative process." Alaska Senator Mike Gravel, backed by the Senate, had argued that the constitutional immunity of legislators extended even to the actions of an aide in arranging for publication of Pentagon papers that Gravel had earlier made a matter of legislative record. He lost...
Indeed, the decision speaks for itself: it and another limiting Congressional immunity in the case of Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Ala.) and his release of the Pentagon Papers, intone a tragic shift of the Supreme Court to a Nixonesque majority. The days of the Warren Court, of sweeping judicial reform, of the highest regard for civil liberty and human dignity, are passing us by as President Nixon assures a conservative majority. Even the Court's decision outlawing the death penalty--based largely on its inconsistent application--fuels a longing for an Abe Fortas or a Homer Thornberry. As time goes...