Word: schweikered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Prouty ?so that each would know the situation. Relieved that the matter would not be decided by one vote, Prouty told Cook: "It is my intention to vote no." The White House reacted recklessly. Calls went out to such Republicans as Mathias, Cook, and Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, reporting that the Administration had Mrs. Smith's vote...
...during the winter, there had seemed little chance of arousing much G.O.P. opposition to add to the 40 Democrats expected to be against Carswell. Brooke started to woo such Republicans as Oregon's Mark Hatfield and Robert Packwood, Maryland's Charles Mathias, and Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker. He never relented. On Feb. 25, he made a floor speech opposing Carswell's elevation. It was a turning point; it got anti-Administration machinery moving...