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Virginia went for Nixon in 1960 and 1968, but the statehouse remained firmly in Democratic hands, as it has for eight decades. Now the old Byrd machine is moribund, and the G.O.P. is respectable in the South. A. (for Abner) Linwood Holton, 46, a close Nixon ally who ran unsuccessfully for the governorship four years ago, was the easy victor over William Battle...
While Helton's much-advertised association with Nixon obviously helped, the G.O.P.'s biggest strength was Democratic weakness. Many conservative Democrats could not forgive Battle his ties with the Kennedys. The state A.F.L.-C.I.O. and the Crusade for Voters, a black political-action group, could not abide Battle's support by the lingering vestiges of the Byrd organization. Many liberals with no love for either Nixon or Holton wanted most of all to exercise the old Democratic guard completely and start fresh. The combination handily managed to put Holton over...
Attorney General John Mitchell, Leonard's boss and Nixon's chief political adviser, denies that he is pursuing a Southern strategy. Last week he maintained that a gradual, conciliatory approach was the only way to desegregate the schools without provoking an uproar that would be damaging to education. Mitchell and HEW Secretary Robert Finch said that they feared that the Supreme Court's "cold-turkey" approach would accelerate the exodus of whites to proliferating private schools, eroding taxpayer support for the public schools and thereby undermining the education given to the blacks and poor whites who remain...
...Bell, a Georgian, and two fellow Southerners on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. It made it clear that the time for litigation had run out and promised a period of painful readjustment in the Mississippi schools. It also constituted a major rebuke for the Nixon Administration's kid-glove policy toward segregation. "You can complain and feel bad," Bell told local school officials, "but there's nothing you can do about...
Ever since the prospects for Clement Haynsworth's confirmation to the Supreme Court began to fade, key Republican Senators have tried to persuade the Nixon Administration to withdraw the nomination and avoid an embarrassing, party-splitting showdown. Nixon has refused. Mustering every scintilla of White House prestige and pressure, he has sought to win over recalcitrant Senators, but with little success. As a result, Nixon now faces the biggest defeat of his young Administration...