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...didn't pass the standards that I'd set with Judge Haynsworth," Cook, 43, told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil. "I'm a lawyer. I'd wanted to be one all my life, ever since I was a kid. The Supreme Court is something to me which is so awe-inspiring that I want to dedicate myself to seeing that the court gets back to the greatness it once...
Another lawyer who favors a strict-constructionist court, Freshman Democrat William Spong of Virginia, went through a similar process in arriving at his anti-Carswell decision, though there was no emotional conclusion like Cook's experience at the Medal of Honor ceremony. Spong, too, had voted for Haynsworth, and he had also started out for Carswell. "I agree with the President that there is the need of a Southerner on the court," Spong said. But Carswell's printed opinions as a district court judge turned out to have been reversed, when appealed, nearly three times as often...
Spong and Cook felt strong pressures from home to vote for Carswell. For Vermont Republican Winston Prouty, it was the other way round. He is generally an Administration loyalist; he stuck with Nixon on the ABM issue when most Northeasterners did not, and he supported the Haynsworth nomination. But the Senator faces a difficult reelection campaign against former Governor Philip Hoff, a liberal Democrat who had zeroed in on the incumbent as a Nixon rubber stamp. Moreover, the mail from Prouty's Yankee constituency ran heavily against Carswell, and the state bar association plumped for a no vote...
...final crucial vote against Carswell came from another New England Republican, Maine's formidably taciturn Margaret Chase Smith, who had opposed Haynsworth. Though Mrs. Smith indicated before the vote that she was unhappy with Carswell's contradictory testimony about his role in incorporating a segregated Tallahassee country club, one of her close confidants let the White House know that she was "all right" on Carswell. Just before the Senate vote, Mrs. Smith learned that Administration operatives, particularly White House Aide Bryce Harlow, were using her favorable stand to lobby Republican waverers. The Congress has no fury like...
...rejection by the Senate for elevation to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge G. Harrold Carswell's statement could be seen as an attempt to mask his obvious disappointment. In fact, there is every reason to believe that the statement was sincere. For Carswell, as for Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. before him -both men who were thrust from the relative obscurity of their positions into national prominence and scrutiny-the nomination fight was a bitter trial that affected lives, family and friends...