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...judge's fitness for the high court. Typical of these troubled Senators was Maryland's Charles McC. Mathias Jr., 47, a former Congressman serving his first term in the Senate. He talked about the agony of his decision to vote against Haynsworth to TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil...
Boggs, now majority whip, would like to become Speaker eventually. He realizes that the surtax is necessary and that some degree of reform is probably unavoidable. Recently, reports TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil, Boggs met secretly in New York City with a number of oil and sulphur executives. He advised them that some reduction in the depletion allowance was necessary in order to prevent even more drastic changes in other tax regulations bearing on their industries...
...feeling that the President is a man who bends under pressure. Many were confirmed in this view when Everett Dirksen and other Senate conservatives defeated the appointment of Dr. John Knowles as HEW's Assistant Secretary for Health and Scientific Affairs. Reports TIME'S Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "Individual Democrats like Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, are moving into the vortex where the decisions are made...
...begin preparing articles of impeachment. With the agreement of House leaders, he and William McCulloch, the ranking Republican on the committee, talked with Mitchell. Though no one would say what Mitchell disclosed, his evidence was apparently convincing. "We got a vast amount of information," Celler told TIME Correspondent Neil MacNeil. "The Attorney General unfolded the whole story. It clinched the matter. It necessitated that the Judiciary Committee take some action unless Fortas resigned...
...Therefore, Nixon will most likely try to cool things down. At week's end he invited Dirksen to accompany him to the Kentucky Derby. As for Dirksen, he remained as archly disingenuous as ever. "The President knows all the time what I'm up to," he told MacNeil. "He knows that if there is anyone on this hilltop he can count on, it's the fellow from Illinois." Precisely so, but counted on to do what...