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...going the farthest, share Bayh's orientation toward jobs. Bayh is especially good on women's rights--he sponsored the ERA in the Senate--and even though he personally opposes abortion, he would not legislate against it. Bayh's major claim to fame, however, is his fight against the Haynesworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. Andrew Kopkind of the Real Paper says that the real credit for defeating those nominations, however, should go to civil rights activist Marian Edelman, who put a lobbying coalition together in which Bayh was only the Senate spokesman. In any case, the liberals...
...Massachusetts, former special assistant to Major Kevin White and sister to State Rep. Barney Frank. Bayh's Indiana senatorial margins have always been slim, but he has been working since before 1972 to create a national constituency. An early and effective Nixon foe, Bayh led the opposition to the Haynesworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. He parlayed an obscure sub-committee chairmanship, that of the Constitutional Amendments Subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee, into landmark legislation and Six O'Clock News Slots. Bayh's presidential succession amendment of 1967, designed to prevent vacancies in the office of Vice President, instead...
...HAYNESWORTH AND Carswell debacles, Vietnamization, and the purges of Charles Goodell and Walter Hickel only deepened Riegle's distaste for the Nixon Administration. As party policy becomes less his cup of tea, one wonders why Riegle continues to drink from it? Why doesn't he "do a John Lindsay?" The answer lies within the Riegle personality. Riegle possesses a singular optimism and fighting instinct. He is an idealist with a profound faith in the individual's capacity to shape his environment...
...Haynesworth case, the FBI and the Justice Department had done a lousy job investigating Carswell. It was clear that his abilities as a judge were below average, that his balking on granting habeas-corpus petitions was a danger signal, and that his rudeness to civil rights workers and blacks in court was inexcusable and pointed to a racist and anti-integrationist intent. In 1948 he had made a clearly white supremacist speech; in 1953 he had helped start a white-only fraternity, and in 1956 he had been the incorporator of the Tallahassee Golf Club, established for the purpose...
HARRIS FEELS that the Carswell affair had real bearing on the Cambodian incursion. That Nixon's peevishness mounted sorely as a result of the Haynesworth and Carswell rejections and that the incursion was his way of showing the Senate and the nation "who's boss" are unspoken conclusions. One Republican Senator admitted that without the Senate's renewed confidence in its own powers it would never have tried to fight the invasion as much...