Word: sst
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just as intent upon getting Mrs. Smith's vote, aides of Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, who has been a leader in the fight against the SST for ten years, followed a more prudent course. They asked other Senators how to approach her, were warned flatly to "leave her alone"-and they...
When the roll call began in a hushed and crowded chamber, opponents of the SST proceeded slowly in the hope that one of their number, Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, could return in time from a Colorado skiing trip, which he had recklessly extended to the day of the vote. Slowed by icy roads, Bayh missed a flight-and the roll call...
Shocks. The clerk had reached only the fourth name, that of New Mexico Democrat Clinton Anderson, when the Administration received its first shock. Anderson, an intimate of one of the SST's prime supporters, Washington...
...galleries murmured again when Texas Democrat Lloyd Bentsen, a freshman widely viewed as a conservative, uttered his no-even though Fellow Texan John Connally had been assigned to coax a yes from him. Heads bowed over their tally sheets, Jackson and Washington's other SST proponent, Democrat Warren Magnuson, looked glum. Proxmire's fist shot up again when Cooper showed that Nixon's appeal had not influenced him; he voted against the SST. Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, who owes a huge debt to labor for its support in his presidential race, nevertheless cast his vote against...
Party Indifference. For Nixon, the defeat was as sharp a rebuke to his leadership as were the Senate's earlier rejections of his Haynsworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. On the SST, he lost 17 Republicans-more than a third of his party's membership -in the Senate. The "ideological gain" he claimed to have made in the 1970 election did not materialize. Of the 11 new Senators, seven voted against the SST-providing exactly the same margin by which their 11 predecessors had opposed the plane last year...