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...Democratic leadership and the White House eyed those potentially fatal reversals of votes that had been cast for the first treaty last month, an equally damaging and more substantive division arose. Half a dozen Democratic Senators-notably Edward Kennedy, George McGovern and Patrick Moynihan-agreed with Panama's protest against a reservation added to the first treaty by Arizona Democrat Dennis DeConcini, which seemed to imply that the U.S. was free to intervene militarily in Panamanian affairs whenever it chose. They warned that they would vote against the treaty unless a "noninterventionist" clarification was added. But DeConcini and several...
...members gone and with none of them still in school, some members now saw the group strictly as a serious, full-time business venture. And many seemed to have lost any sense of the group's political awareness, opposing Joffe's suggestion that they play a benefit for McGovern in the fall...
...people, loyalty, egos, energy-as did his Texas mentors, Lyndon Johnson and John Connally. For him, politics is people, not issues; winning, not scoring debating points; having fun, not studying position papers. As chairman of the Democratic Party from 1972 to 1976, he stitched together warring Democrats after George McGovern's defeat and handed Jimmy Carter a unified party. During the fall campaign, Strauss grumbled privately that Carter and his aides were not paying enough attention to him. There is still some residual mistrust, but relations steadily improved after he took the job as chief trade negotiator and began...
...liberal Democrat who campaigned for Robert Kennedy and George McGovern, Hundley was as astonished as the rest of the Washington legal community when Mitchell hired him. But the two got along well. When Nixon's current Washington attorney, Herbert J. Miller, was unable to represent Nixon in the so-called Kissinger wiretap case, he passed the assignment along to Hundley. One of Hundley's six children protested: "Representing Mitchell was bad enough, but defending Nixon is embarrassing us at school." The dilemma was resolved after a few months when the Justice Department took over Nixon's defense...
...Democrats were preparing to nominate George McGovern as their presidential candidate, Nixon led by some 19 points in public opinion polls and had no reason to worry about his reelection. But he was furious at O'Brien for pushing the ITT charges. An angry Nixon told Haldeman on Air Force One: "O'Brien's not going to get away with it, Bob. We're going to get proof of his relationship with Hughes-and just what he's doing for the money...