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By that morning, the White House was getting desperate. Liaison men under Bryce Harlow began telephoning every Republican who might waver. They tried to convince each one that he was the key to victory for Carswell: "You're the one. You make the difference." Incredibly, some, like Maryland's Charles...
On Wednesday morning, the day of the vote, Nixon got worse news. Cook called Harlow to say that he had decided to oppose Carswell. Cook had relayed the same news to Mrs. Smith and Prouty ?so that each would know the situation. Relieved that the matter would not be...
When jockeying over the nomination began during the winter, there had seemed little chance of arousing much G.O.P. opposition to add to the 40 Democrats expected to be against Carswell. Brooke started to woo such Republicans as Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Robert Packwood, Maryland's Charles Mathias...
"We'll employ the Agnew hook," said Arizona's Morris Udall, co-captain of the Democrats' congressional basketball team. "This ploy," he explained, involves "intimidating scowls and feigned throws at the press table, followed by a wild charge to the south end of the court while shouting...
More significant than the repeal of the Cold War Resolutions is the breakup of the "bipartisan" coalition which has governed American foreign policy since World War II. Dissent on the left has either allowed or forced liberal Senators to split with the coalition. In former days, the Mathias resolution would...