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...reasons ranging from age to political weariness to lust for higher office, a record number of incumbent Congressmen?37 Democrats and 17 Republicans???did not even run for reelection. Perhaps the best-known member to retire was House Speaker Carl Albert, 68, the only nationally known native of Bug Tussle, Okla. The seat he held for 15 terms (but not, of course, his role as Speaker) will be more or less filled by State Senator Wes Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger...
Clearly, the public is becoming disenchanted with the G.O.P. A recent Gallup poll reports that only 22% of the American public consider themselves to be Republicans???down from 34% in 1954. But 46% of the public say they are Democrats, the same percentage...
...Expletive deleted] it is a terrible lousy thing?it will remain a crisis among the upper intellectual types, the soft heads, our own, too?Republicans???and the Democrats and the rest. Average people won't think it is much of a crisis unless it affects them [unintelligible]." (March...
...there much reason to expect any as a result of Democratic tactics; even if there had been such an expectation, it would hardly have justified the Watergate or related enterprises. While there obviously is plenty of political corruption on all sides, there is no evidence that Democrats?or other Republicans???burglarized offices, tapped telephones, kept huge caches of secret campaign funds to finance the disruption of opponents' campaigns, or tried to obstruct the judicial system's attempts to punish the offenders...
...before any changes, global or minuscule, would be effected, before that first night's sleep under the nation's most august roof, the Nixons?and the Republicans???had the traditional celebrations to enjoy. At an estimated cost of $2.3 million, the highest in history (borne by the paying guests and the Washington business community), the festivities that started over the weekend with receptions, luncheons and a concert at Constitution Hall, reached a crescendo Monday night with six balls around Washington, at each of which the Nixons were to appear. G.O.P. bashes are traditionally more sedate than Democratic wingdings...