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...collegial mood changed abruptly on Jan. 31 with the testimony of Paul Weyrich, an archconservative spokesman for right-wing causes. Weyrich openly declared that he had seen the nominee drunk in public and with women other than his wife. That caused the committee's teetotaling chairman Sam Nunn to ask Tower pointedly and in front of television cameras whether he had "any alcoholic problem." Replied Tower: "I have none, Senator. I am a man of some discipline...
Nunn and Warner would not disclose the charges. But after Paul Weyrich, a former Senate staffer, became the first committee witness to talk publicly about Tower's alleged drinking and sexual escapades, the committee was inundated with calls reporting "sightings" of Tower either in a less than sober state or with women, both before and after the FBI conducted a supposedly thorough background check in January. (It was learned last week that the FBI actually completed only the first part of a three-part investigation before Bush sent Tower's name to the Senate.) Committee insiders say many callers were...
That happened after Weyrich, who heads the archconservative Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, charged in an open hearing that Tower could become a "national embarrassment" as Secretary of Defense. "Over the course of many years," he explained, "I have encountered the nominee in a condition, a lack of sobriety, as well as with women to whom he was not married." Nunn would hear no more right then, though he promised Weyrich a chance to elaborate in closed session. In a later open hearing, Nunn asked Tower "whether you yourself have any alcohol problem." Tower's answer: "I have none...
Robertson's now proven ability to ambush conventional candidates still does not make him a serious contender for the nomination. Even Paul Weyrich, a conservative strategist with whom he is ideologically compatible, thinks the most Robertson can achieve is a "realistic shot at determining the outcome" by controlling a pivotal delegate bloc. Robertson runs poorly in national surveys, fifth out of six candidates in a September TIME poll...
...school prayer. The President's nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court has stilled some, but not all, of the gripes about domestic policy; conservatives now grumble that Reagan is abandoning his "economic bill of rights" and promoting a leftish, catastrophic health-insurance scheme. But, says Paul Weyrich, head of the conservative group called the Free Congress Foundation, "the real feelings are on foreign policy issues...