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WELL before the 1 p.m. voting hour, the galleries of the capacious old marble-and-leather chamber were bulging as the Senate gathered last week to vote on the Supreme Court nomination of Clement Haynsworth. Vice President Spiro Agnew arrived a full ten minutes early; the vote was expected to be close, and he could break a tie. As the clock on the Senate wall reached 1 p.m., the chamber hushed, and the roll call began. The outcome hung on the votes of seven uncommitted Senators, and everyone who had any business being there knew who they were. Nevada...
Labor and civil rights organizations initially opposed Haynsworth for his conservative decisions in the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals, but later, allegations of conflicts of interest and ethical improprieties provoked extensive controversy in Senate committee hearings...
...Senate rejected yesterday-by a vote of 55-45-President Nixon's nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. to the Supreme Court...
Presidential Aide Clark Mollenhoff told the Des Moines Register that the speech reflected concern that the Administration is not "getting through to the public"-not just on Viet Nam, but also on such issues as the Safeguard ABM and the nomination of Judge Clement Haynsworth to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Haynsworth question is especially vexing to Nixon right now, since he faces almost certain defeat when the nomination comes to a vote in the Senate this week. In each of these controversies, Mollenhoff contended, newspapers, magazines and television news reports have "distorted" the facts and failed to give...
Montgomery said the Black Students Association "is painfully shocked by the racist tenor of the substantial portion of Haynsworth's civil rights opinions...