Word: ribicoffs
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...member committee. As of last week, the committee apparently was almost evenly divided. Seven Senators leaned toward support of the Budget Director (Democrats Thomas Eagleton, Henry Jackson, John Glenn, Sam Nunn, James Sasser, and Lawton Chiles and Republican John Danforth); six seemed to oppose him (Democrat Abraham Ribicoff and Republicans Charles Percy, Jacob Javits, Charles Mathias, William Roth and H. John Heinz). Four Senators appeared undecided (Democrats Ed Muskie and John McClellan were absent from the hearing, Lee Metcalf said little and Republican Ted Stevens' sentiments were unclear). Among Lance's critics, Javits turned...
Unusually solemn, Lance focused his anger on two of the Senators sitting in judgment in front of him: Abraham Ribicoff. Democratic chairman of the committee, and. more scathingly, Charles Percy, the ranking Republican. As reported in a Labor Day weekend story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Lance noted, the Senators had sent three committee investigators to quiz Billy Lee Campbell, a former vice president of the Calhoun First National Bank, who was serving an eight-year prison term for embezzling nearly $1 million from the bank, mostly during the time that Lance was its president. Campbell had claimed that Lance...
Bloom's lame defense: he had assumed that whatever he knew about Lance's banking background was also known to Carter staffers who were handling Lance's nomination and supposed they had passed such information to the Ribicoff committee. Yet Bloom had, in fact, warmly endorsed Lance in a letter to that committee and in the classified FBI report. He noted only briefly that the comptroller's office had found some problems at the Calhoun bank?a reference Bloom claimed should have been taken as a "red flag." He certainly did; he kept documents related to those problems locked...
Certainly, Carter has been hurt by the Lance affair. His reputation as the champion of ethical purity has been permanently tarnished?a point that Delaware's Republican Senator William Roth hammered home with devastating effectiveness last week merely by citing two Carter comments before the Ribicoff committee: "Just staying within the law will never be enough for a Carter campaign or a Carter Administration." And: "The Watergate tragedy showed that concealment of a mistake or impropriety can be more serious in some instances than the impropriety itself." Just how seriously Carter's effectiveness has been damaged is less clear...
...York Times, the only paper to match the Post in its almost daily attention to Lance's troubles, was beaten to a few disclosures by its own columnist, William Safire. His relentless scrutiny of Lance's loans and insinuations about possible conflict of interests prompted Senator Abraham Ribicoff to complain on July 25 that Lance was being "smeared from one end of the country to the other," a complaint that Ribicoff later retracted. The Times tried to catch up with Safire, but produced a stream of speculative, melodramatic stories. On Aug. 15, for instance, the Times described...