Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...late and--despite his protestations to the contrary--he probably contributed to the Nixon victory. And to further bewilder the liberal constituency McCarthy proceeded to give up his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to a hawk and to support Russell Long against Edward Kennedy for Senate Majority Whip...
...wiser leader because of it. California Democratic Leader Jess Unruh declares: "That terrible incident was an ordeal that made a hell of a better man out of Ted. Everything had been so easy for him. He was almost insufferable in 1969 when he won the job as Senate whip . . . Then came Chappaquiddick and he lost his whip job, too. Those experiences humbled him. That's on the private side. On the public side there is no doubt it has cost him votes." Mike Feldman, a former aide to John Kennedy, frequently plays tennis with Ted; he notices one small change...
...generally effective legislator. He has made two major errors in the Senate. The first was his sponsorship of an old family friend, Boston Municipal Court Judge Francis X. Morrissey, for the federal district court in Massachusetts. The second came when, through inattention and uncharacteristic sloppiness, he lost the Senate whip's job to West Virginia's Robert Byrd earlier this year...
...outcome seemed so certain that nobody had bothered to take a hard tally of all the Senators. Minority Whip Robert Griffin of Michigan counted 20 Republicans who would be present and voting for the bill and he assumed that enough Democrats would go along to make passage certain. The Democrats did not even bother to tally their own. Senator John Sherman Cooper was flying to Kentucky to campaign for the Republican gubernatorial candidate. Carl Curtis of Nebraska was in his home state attending political meetings. Many other Senators had left Washington sure that their absence would make no difference...
Daly was "integrally involved with this book," Newstadter said, adding that "Chuck (Daly) was at all times acting as editor and whip, and at times a harsh critic and a Simon Legree...