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...Administration's favor, but it was highly dangerous. "We knew then that we were in trouble," one strategist recalls. The White House men scanned the Democrats who had voted for recommittal, hoping that they might be able to swing one of three Southerners: Arkansas' William Fulbright, Virginia's William Spong, Tennessee's Albert Gore. Further soundings made that unlikely, and the doubts proved well founded...
Another lawyer who favors a strict-constructionist court, Freshman Democrat William Spong of Virginia, went through a similar process in arriving at his anti-Carswell decision, though there was no emotional conclusion like Cook's experience at the Medal of Honor ceremony. Spong, too, had voted for Haynsworth, and he had also started out for Carswell. "I agree with the President that there is the need of a Southerner on the court," Spong said. But Carswell's printed opinions as a district court judge turned out to have been reversed, when appealed, nearly three times as often...
...Spong and Cook felt strong pressures from home to vote for Carswell. For Vermont Republican Winston Prouty, it was the other way round. He is generally an Administration loyalist; he stuck with Nixon on the ABM issue when most Northeasterners did not, and he supported the Haynsworth nomination. But the Senator faces a difficult reelection campaign against former Governor Philip Hoff, a liberal Democrat who had zeroed in on the incumbent as a Nixon rubber stamp. Moreover, the mail from Prouty's Yankee constituency ran heavily against Carswell, and the state bar association plumped for a no vote...
THERE HAD been hints in 1965 and 1966 in the state and senatorial elections of the new vote from Northern Virginia and the Negroes and blacks. A moderate-then called a liberal-William Spong upset the Byrd Organization man for a Senate seat in 1966; a Republican had come close to winning the 1965 gubernatorial election. But though the Byrds looked in trouble going into 1969 (Virginia state elections are held the year following Presidential elections), all the political observers thought they would make a good battle...
...major questions in Virginia is how soon Spong will join the battle to elect the progressive leaders the state needs to cope with its emerging industrial and urban character. Despite his natural tendency to stay aloof from day-to-day political maneuvering, he feels that "this is something I can't just walk away from." It seems likely that in one or two years, after he has established himself in the Senate, Spong will take a much more active interest in "party committees and conventions"--as well as elections...