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Carswell's announcement was greeted with enthusiasm in much of the South, where he recently became a hero and a martyr after the Senate rejected his nomination to the Supreme Court. Florida's Republican Senator Edward Gurney extolled the ex-judge as a "dream" candidate and "unbeatable" in the G.O.P.'s effort to take over the Senate seat of retiring Democrat Spessard Holland...
...sees in it an opportunity to boost his own sagging chances for reelection. Not only would Carswell's popularity in Florida help Kirk at the polls, but his nomination would eliminate Cramer, Kirk's longtime rival for control of the state G.O.P. It would also help Gurney, fearful of the powerful Cramer's rivalry in the Senate. Cramer dismissed the Carswell race as "just another one of Claudius' [Kirk's] circus acts...
...extent, it is. After plumbing the depth, of public support for Carswell, Kirk and Gurney invited the judge to Gurney's Winter Park, Fla., home and persuaded him to make the race. Then, says Gurney, "We decided to run it past Harry Dent," the South Carolinian who is Nixon's chief political adviser for the South. Gurney says that Dent and Rogers C.B. Morton, the Republican national chairman, bought the idea. But Morton flatly denies it. When Dent called Morton, seemingly trying to get him to ask Cramer to step aside for Carswell, Morton says he refused. Later...
...sponsor of the amendment most significant in causing withdrawal of the earlier version-H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science-called the new version "an extraordinary tour de force of compromise...
...amendment passed-proposed by H. Stuart Hughes. Gurney Professor of History and Political Sciences-objected to the clauses relating to "lack of responsiveness," "as damaging as some of the more overt violations," and "procedures to review, assess, and make accountable...