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Laurence Barrett, a onetime political reporter on the New York Herald Tribune, wrote the major story, viewing the election as a whole. Al Marlens, former managing editor of Newsday, did the personality profiles of Senators-Elect Tunney, Stevenson, Buckley and Brock, while B.J. Phillips, who used to work for the Washington Post, was responsible for the piece on six new Congressmen. Other articles were contributed by Ed Magnuson, who spent ten years on the Minneapolis Tribune before joining TIME; Keith Johnson, another political veteran of the Herald Tribune, as well as TIME'S Los Angeles and Washington bureaus...
...Tennessee and Joseph Tydings in Maryland, and the election of Republicans Robert Taft Jr. in Ohio and Lowell Weicker Jr. in Connecticut. Most spectacularly, Nixon had read New York's liberal Republican Charles Goodell out of the G.O.P. and helped conservatism triumph in the person of James Buckley. Republican Governors Nelson Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan had won handily in the nation's two largest states...
...there the gap was closing. In every other race we were behind. In Maryland we were behind 60 to 40, in Connecticut by ten points. Prouty was six points behind. Goodell was down the tube." Nixon himself helped to replace New York's Goodell with Conservative James Buckley, and he was pleased with the play he called. He saw victory shaping up for Democrat Richard Ottinger. He sent Quarterback Agnew into the game with new instructions, pulling liberal sympathy votes back to Goodell and leaving the way clear for Buckley's end run. It worked...
...election around. "We emphasized the peace issue," he said. "The whole secret of any campaign is to talk about your issue. The peace issue was very beneficial." Happily he ticked off the individual races. "In Connecticut, Weicker-I've talked with him-will vote like Dodd. With Buckley, there will be a 180° turnaround. The same with Brock in Tennessee and Bentsen in Texas. Taft? Well, it will be much better than with Young." Nixon made a morning-after list of Republican losers whose talents he wants to use in the Administration: it was headed by Clark MacGregor...
...clashes of personality, the interplay of local considerations and national ones, the varying perception of voters in diverse regions. As the personality sketches on these and the following pages show, they also produced engaging winners who may be starting significant careers in the U.S. Senate: New York's James Buckley, Tennessee's William Brock, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III, California's John Tunney...