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...after another; finally, they agreed to vote this week. In the meantime, the White House cranked up a campaign to defeat the proposal. Nixon returned from a Florida trip to supervise the operation; he threatened to veto the entire tax bill if the amendment were attached to it. Clark MacGregor, the chief White House liaison man with Congress, argued that the plan would rob the Treasury of money that would have to be replaced from another source. He also contended that the check-off system would "freeze out minor parties" and "render immune from change the central structure of each...
...chamber: bitter skirmishing over amendments to the bill had ended two days before, with consistent victories for Administration lobbyists who twisted arms and scraped senatorial egos. Still, there seemed no doubt that the bill would pass. White House congressional liaison men had vanished from Capitol Hill. Their chief, Clark MacGregor, a former Minnesota Congressman, had flown to New England for a Dartmouth football game and a Vermont family reunion...
...better this time around, Nixon has appointed an affable and able former Republican Congressman, Minnesota's Clark MacGregor, to help build new bridges to the Hill. MacGregor has been given direct access to Nixon, hurdling the formidable staff barriers in Nixon's outer offices, and the President has promised to cut him in early on all legislative plans. Frequent bipartisan meetings with Nixon over drinks or at breakfast are promised to confer on legislation before combat is joined on the floor and positions harden. Texan John Connally is also expected to turn his persuasive charms on the legislators...
Those are commendable moves, and MacGregor is working especially hard to mollify the more progressive Republicans in the Senate. They are such men as Mark Hatfield, Charles Mathias and William Saxbe, who have felt not only ignored by the White House but threatened by the Nixon-Agnew attacks that helped defeat New York's liberal Republican Charles Goodell. Yet much more is needed than MacGregor's good will. Old pros on the Hill are beginning to wonder if Nixon really understands Congress, despite his four years in the House. The fact that MacGregor is sporting an I CARE ABOUT CONGRESS...
...congressional veterans are awaiting signs that MacGregor carries real influence with the President. They recall that one of the most effective legislative aides they have known. Jack Kennedy's man Larry O'Brien, was virtually unknown when J.F.K. took office. But in the first few weeks all of their appeals to Kennedy drew a stock answer: "Have you talked about this with Larry?" The Congressmen got the message and O'Brien became the man to see; he had the clout...