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...Conservative Party opponent, the President has made clear his willingness to sacrifice a card-carrying Republican for someone more ideologically in tune with the Administration. Apart from Goodell, the insistence on ideological purity has greater practical significance for the future. Such Republican liberals as Charles Percy, Mark Hatfield and Edward Brooke, whose terms expire in 1973, undoubtedly perceive the warning signal: if necessary, Nixon is prepared to sacrifice even Republican liberals to alter the character of the Senate. Conservative Robert Dole of Kansas does nothing to allay such apprehensions when he says: "The liberals in the Senate are still important...
...Goodell had a middle of the road record as a Representative. As a Senator he thought it would be a good idea to be more liberal and veered to the left. He voted against the two Nixon nominations to the Supreme Court; he voted for the Church-Cooper and Hatfield-McGovern bills, and filed his own anti-war measure. Agnew has called him the Christine Jorgensen of the Republican party...
RHODE ISLAND: Democratic Senator John O. Pastore is the favorite over Rev. John J. McLaughlin. Both are liberals who support the McGovern Hatfield amendment. Pastore will benefit from the August 21 announcement by the Bishop of Providence that McLaughlin did not have the consent of the church in his bid for office. Rhode Island is a heavily Catholic, traditionally Democratic state, and Pastore should have no trouble...
...economic and military aid, united the Congress and the Executive behind a bipartisan foreign policy, and justified an activist posture abroad. To abandon that anti-Communist internationalism now would severely impede the President's freedom of movement in foreign affairs-an obsessive fear with Nixon during debates over the Hatfield-McGovern amendment, for he is a determined activist. Foreign policy, he has said, is almost the sole business of the President. The running of the "free world" has not been left to Henry Kissinger. It would be more accurate to say that the running of the nation has been left...
...said the peace forces in the Senate would continuefighting and that the McGovern-Hatfield Amendment was defeated because "it bit off more" than most Senators were willing to chew...