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Billy Joe Clegg and Auburn Lee Packwood, preacher and teacher, respectively, from Springfield, Mo., hitched up together as the anti-Communist ticket in New Hampshire...
...news of the talks outraged many members of Congress because city and state officials had testified that without federal help, default was inevitable. Fumed Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon: "Those guys sat here and lied to us. I don't think we should bail those liars out." Governor Hugh Carey told congressional leaders that the plan had virtually no hope of succeeding because of legal snarls; indeed, Big Mac Chairman Felix Rohatyn called it a "20-to-l shot." Even so, the dustup further damaged New York's already bankrupt credibility...
Among the re-elected Republican Senators were Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Robert Packwood of Oregon Charles Mathias Jr. of Maryland and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania Jacob Javits of New York was a fairly comfortable winner; he received 45% of the vote in his race against former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, the Democratic nominee, who drew 39%, and Conservative Party Candidate Barbara Keating, who got 15%. Robert Dole of Kansas, who was Republican National Chairman in 1972, won by a whisker. Four months ago Dole thought he was "down the tube." But he managed to beat Obstetrician William Roy (by about...
...Gross of Iowa concluded that the documents "do prove conclusively that Mr. Nixon made many misleading statements to the American people on his knowledge of the Watergate cover-up." Gross also found "an amazing lack of ethical sensitivity in the office of the presidency." Similarly, Republican Senator Robert W. Packwood of Oregon said that he considered Nixon's view of Government "rather frightening" because "there are not even any token cliches about what is good for the people." Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, former head of the Republican National Committee, was asked by a reporter if he would want...
...Associated Press questioned the eleven G.O.P. Senators who are running for reelection, and only one said that he planned to ask the President for campaign help. He was Oklahoma's Henry Bellmon, who served as a national campaign chairman for Nixon in 1968. Oregon's Bob Packwood said that "most people would now regard close association with the Administration as the kiss of death...