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...bipartisan group of reformers is made up of Republicans William Saxbe of Ohio and Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania and Democrats Alan Cranston of California and Harold Hughes of Iowa. Because this was their first term, they were not accustomed to the quaint ways in which the Senate fails to conduct its business, and they felt frustrated. Saxbe, who knows how to exert power as a result of his experience as a speaker of the Ohio house of representatives, complained last summer that "anyone who thinks being a Senator is fun just hasn't had much." Cranston, equally irked...
...Even fewer people seemed to like that idea. "Without federal coordination, we'll probably just have a few Minutemen run up Bunker Hill and shoot redcoats every third day," mused James Matthew, Boston Expo's general manager. On behalf of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker groused about the "highly unusual procedures" of the commission and hinted at a congressional investigation if the decentralization decision were not reconsidered...
...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...
Just 20 minutes before the roll call was to begin, Schweiker got his White House plea?and promptly told Ed Brooke. "I raced into the cloakroom to find Mrs. Smith," Brooke recalled. "She wasn't there. I raced down to the Senate dining room and found her." Mrs. Smith, livid at the unauthorized?but not inaccurate?use of her name, called Harlow, who admitted that the calls had been made. Brooke rushed onto the Senate floor and spread the word that Maggie Smith was not yet in the Administration's camp...
...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...