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...While the present list is tentative, among the wanted are Edward M. Kennedy '54 (Ma.), Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (Mich.), Howard M. Metzenbaum (Oh.), Paul S. Sarbanes (Md.), Harrison A. Williams Jr. (N.J.) and Daniel Patrick Moynihan (N.Y.) in the Democratic camp. Among the Republicans posted were Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. (Ct.), Robert T. Stafford (Vt.), and John H. Chafee...
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield vowed to use every stalling technique the Senate's quaint rules would permit. At 3:30 a.m. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens read monotonously from a lengthy Senate committee report. At 4 a.m. Connecticut Republican Lowell Weicker worked himself into a spirited and largely irrelevant plea for the U.S. to become independent of foreign oil. But each Senator spoke only to a nearly empty chamber. Their colleagues dozed on cots in darkened conference rooms or in their otherwise vacant offices. This was the Senate's first all-night filibuster since 1978, an effort to prevent...
...road to lobby for his energy proposals. But wherever he went, he was never able to escape the long shadow of his rival, not even aboard Air Force One on the way to his first stop, Hartford, Conn. As a courtesy he had invited Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, a Republican, to join him on the plane. When reporters asked Weicker about Kennedy, he replied that all Republican officeholders were hoping that Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White...
Meanwhile, Sen. Lowell P. Weicker (R-Conn.) said yesterday Kennedy would easily take the nomination from Carter...
...Kennedy would take it in a walk," Weicker said as he flew to Hartford, Conn. aboard Air Force One as the President's guest. "There's too many Democratic congressmen and senators with their necks on the line. They want the strongest possible person at the top of the ticket," he added...