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Crank Up. The fact that the Administration had so much at stake had already deprived the nomination's opponents of the backing of the two top Republican leaders, Minority Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan, who had been instrumental in defeating Clement Haynsworth. Without that leadership, the few remaining G.O.P. liberals had to scramble among themselves to find an anti-Carswell standardbearer. The result was the emergence of Brooke, the Senate's lone black, as an effective leader of the liberal bloc...
...After the defeat of Haynsworth. Nixon chose Carswell as a retaliatory appointment. trying to show that he could do even worse than Haynsworth. After this, he could do worse again, but even Nixon could learn from two rebukes. I don't think that he will be willing to risk a third repudiation," Countryman added...
...questions looked into. Only four Republicans have publicly announced that they would vote against Carswell on the Senate floor, but burial in committee now looks attractive to a dozen G.O.P. Senators, maybe as many as 15. Democrat William Fulbright of Arkansas, a onetime law teacher who voted for Haynsworth, joined the defectors from Carswell while protesting that he does not concur in "the lack of enthusiasm in some circles for the appointment of a Southern judge...
...welfare reform bill, introducing a modified, if modest, guaranteed annual wage, is one example. In its pragmatic way, the Administration has made some other significant moves. Yet such accomplishments are far outweighed by other acts: the go-slow on desegregation, the attempt to dilute the Voting Rights Act, the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations, the general lack of warmth, concern and responsibility for blacks on the part of the White House. When Presidential Adviser Daniel P. Moynihan counseled "benign neglect" in his now famous memo, his stated intention was only to remove hysteria from both sides of the racial struggle...
...someone else. The fact that other black kids with "socalled legitimate beginnings" teased him. Jackson recalls, made him determined to succeed. His mother later married a janitor, and young Jesse often accompanied him on his night duties. One office his stepfather cleaned belonged to a Greenville lawyer named Clement Haynsworth...