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...sides of the aisle, Baker has managed to be Reagan's man in the Senate without diminishing his own stature. Moreover, no one expects Baker's effectiveness as Senate mediator to be lessened if he becomes a lame duck. As his best friend in the Senate, Richard Lugar (Republican, Indiana) says, "There are people who need his patience, his ability to listen to all the guff, through all the tedium." But a Baker departure would affect his role as White House lieutenant. "The President's going to have to do his own selling," says a Republican Senator...
News of Baker's possible retirement sent a quiver through ambitious Republicans. Among those mentioned to succeed Baker as G.O.P. Senate leader in 1985: Dole, Lugar, Pete Domenici (New Mexico) and Senate Whip Ted Stevens (Alaska). In Tennessee the most likely contenders for Baker's Senate seat are Congressman Albert Gore Jr. and Governor Alexander...
Henry Graff points out that we have had no ex-mayor as President since Grover Cleveland. "Mayors deal with garbage and garbage rubs off." Hubert Humphrey (Minneapolis) came close, however, and Senator Richard Lugar (Indianapolis), one of the biggest Republican winners on Nov. 2, gets talked about...
...G.O.P.'s eight-vote margin in the Senate, but he had aroused the President's anger by complaining too publicly that Republicans had "written off' blacks, Hispanics, Jews and working women. Packwood was replaced, on a 29-to-25 Republican caucus vote, by Indiana Senator Richard Lugar...
There are also new stirrings of congressional concern. In September, Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware, a Democrat, and Richard Lugar of Indiana, a Republican, introduced a bill that would set up a $50 million endowment for Soviet studies. The money will come none too soon. Says Marshall D. Shulman, director of Columbia's newly named Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union: "The lead time for training a first-class specialist on the Soviet Union is longer than the lead time for a new missile." And the product may be more important. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported...