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...week went on, however, the White House's show of public optimism evaporated. On Friday, Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren repeated the official line that the President believed the facts did not support the allegations of misconduct, but conceded that Nixon was "in the role of underdog." In the privacy of their offices, however, many White House aides were grimly resigned to the inevitability of impeachment. But they insisted that, as one put it, "his conviction in the Senate is at least a debatable proposition...
...that "the history of liberty in the world is very short, the history of tyranny is very long, and the principal source of oppression has always been the unrestrained power of the state." When South Carolina's Mann observed that the U.S. political system looks out for "the underdog" and protects the "individual from the power of his government," Mississippi Republican Trent Lott had a question...
LOTT: I would ask my colleague from South Carolina, who is the underdog...
Still, the overall damage may not be too severe. The three-term Congressman is running, not for the House this November but for the governorship. Even with his impeachment vote, he is favored to get his party's nomination, and as before he remains an underdog against Incumbent Marvin Mandel in a state where 69% of the voters are Democrats. But instant fame as a result of Judiciary Committee publicity may help his cause. He still has the support of Maryland's U.S. Senators-both Republicans-and his pro-impeachment stand will enable him to pick...
Alfred B. Del Bello, 39, is the first Democrat ever elected county executive of affluent Westchester, N.Y. (pop. 900,000). A two-term city councilman in Yonkers, N.Y., he ran as the underdog for mayor in 1969 and won, the first Democrat to do so in 32 years. In two terms, the Fordham-educated lawyer cleaned up corruption, balanced the budget and restored Yonkers, his birthplace, to a semblance of civic health. Since his upset victory last year, which made him the youngest county executive in Westchester's history, he has laid plans for recycling garbage into energy...