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Heading into the showdown Senate vote on the SST, proponents clung to a single hope, wispy as a contrail, of keeping the aircraft from crashing. Their head count showed 49 Senators against the plane, 47 for it, two absent and two wavering: Maine's Margaret Chase Smith and Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. If Richard Nixon could land those two Republicans, the SST might yet take off. Vice President Spiro Agnew stood ready to cast a tie-breaking vote to continue the aircraft's funding...
Kentucky colleague, Republican Marlowe Cook, had switched from his anti-SST vote last year to stand with the Administration this time...
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...