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...answers to his letters to Postmaster General Winton Blount; when Blount invited Cooper to his office recently to talk over a Post Office problem, Cooper refused to come. Colorado's Peter Dominick is still seething over a contretemps with a second-echelon Treasury Department official, and even Karl Mundt of South Dakota-a staunch Nixon loyalist-complains of the "remoteness" of Administration staffers. The President himself angered many Republican Senators of every political hue. They could rarely...
...Karl E. Mundt (R-S.D.) said that this likelihood plus the cancellation of November and December draft calls, could mean the end of the present selection system...
...This could mean that draft-age citizens will no longer be vulnerable under the old system." Mundt said, "for if Congress follows through on the President's request in the next few weeks, the Administration's reform plan can be operating when it becomes necessary to utilize the draft again...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
...toughest fight was prompted by Dirksen's son-in-law, Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, who proposed to exempt from the open-housing provision certain privately owned one-family units. Several Republican conservatives, notably South Dakota's Karl Mundt, had demanded the Baker amendment as a condition for agreeing to cloture. By a 48-to-43 vote, the Baker amendment was killed...