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...Democratic winner was Jerome Bob Traxler, 42, son of a rural mail carrier and a mod-coiffed extra vert who had a strong record as a populist in the Michigan legislature. Traxler dug into the issues of high taxes, the high cost of living, the power of the oil companies-all stands that got him the full backing of the unions. Most of all, Traxler struck at Watergate and Nixon. "We said all along that this election was a referendum on the President," Traxler later noted. "The man we had to beat was the man who lives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A Message for the President | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...trick for Traxler to drape Nixon round the neck of his opponent, James M. Sparling, a former newsman and an aide for 13 years to Congressman Harvey. Last summer Sparling worked for the White House as a legislative aide and had been quoted as saying that he was "fully, totally, 100% committed to the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A Message for the President | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...Nixon spent a day whooping up Republican support in the safe rural areas, acting at times as though he were the candidate while his host stood aside and listened. Nixon apparently helped Sparling a bit as a campaigner-but he had already lost him the race as an issue. Traxler took 51.4% of the vote, a startling flip-flop from the results in 1972, when the Republicans captured 59.3% of the ballots in the district's congressional race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: A Message for the President | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...next day Nixon was in rural Michigan, campaigning for a Republican candidate for Congress, James Sparling Jr. He had asked for Nixon's help at a time when polls showed him running well behind Democrat Robert Traxler. By last week, however, Sparling was not so far behind and was calling his invitation a challenge to Nixon "to get out of the White House and face the people." He even went so far as to issue a statement that greatly embittered White House aides. It said in part: "The shadow of guilt now hangs over the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WHITE HOUSE: Nixon Campaigns for His Presidency | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...still demonstrating considerable determination despite his Watergate woes, decided to campaign for a Republican candidate this week in a special election in Michigan. James Sparling Jr., the party's nominee in the heavily Republican Eighth District along Lake Huron, is locked in a close race with Democrat Robert Traxler. Since the G.O.P. has lost three of four special congressional elections this year largely because of Watergate, Nixon's decision to appear was a bold gamble. The election will be held April 16-ironically the day after the deadline for filing income taxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WATERGATE: Moving in Committee and Court | 4/15/1974 | See Source »

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