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...story fell into three parts. The cover on President Nixon and the vote's significance for his embattled Administration was written by Associate Editor Ed Magnuson and researched by Deborah Murphy. The box on the lives and careers of Judge Carswell and the other rejected nominee, Clement Haynsworth, was written by Contributing Editor Peter Stoler. The second box on the Senators at the center of this historic confrontation was written by Associate Editor Keith Johnson. Both were researched by Genevieve Wilson. Says Sidey: "This was an old-fashioned power conflict between Hill and White House - the classic Washington struggle...
...zest for political roughhousing that was his hallmark in the 1940s and '50s, Nixon decided to slug it out with the Senate. The conflict that he thus launched could have greater impact on his Administration ?and on the country?than the Senate's rejection of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and George Harrold Carswell...
...possible to get confirmation for a judge on the Supreme Court of any man who believes in the strict construction of the Constitution, as I do, if he happens to come from the South." He accused his opponents not only of regional prejudice, but of "hypocrisy" and of subjecting Haynsworth and Carswell to "vicious assaults on their intelligence, on their honesty." He said that he would be forced to nominate a judicial conservative from outside the South, thus denying that section of the nation its just representation. Later, in a written statement, he gave Southerners his "assurance that...
...selection of Judge Blackmun, who is a native of Minnesota, is in line with Nixon's pledge last week that his next nominee would be from outside of the South. Nixon contended then that his first two nominees, Clement L. Haynsworth Jr. of South Carolina and G. Harrold Carswell of Florida were not confirmed because they were Southerners...
Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who had led the opposition to Haynsworth but held back on Carswell in fear of leading a losing battle, was then spurred to action. Says a Bayh aide: "The boss was terribly moved by Brooke's speech...