Word: call
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, by the time the recommittal roll call was held last Monday, the Administration had retrieved enough straying Republicans to win handily. The motion was defeated 52 to 44, with only eight Republicans for it. To most observers, that vote seemed the end of any serious threat to Carswell...
...Administration had won its battle ?but it was now in danger of losing the war. "The White House had shot its wad on recommittal," Bayh explained. "They called in all their lOUs on that one. They cranked up for the wrong vote." He was confident not only of pinning down the tie vote but also of scratching out one more anti-Carswell ballot. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield agreed to call for a vote on the nomination immediately after the recommittal move lost. The motion required unanimous approval. A perplexed and wary Hruska, floor-managing the Carswell drive, objected...
Just 20 minutes before the roll call was to begin, Schweiker got his White House plea?and promptly told Ed Brooke. "I raced into the cloakroom to find Mrs. Smith," Brooke recalled. "She wasn't there. I raced down to the Senate dining room and found her." Mrs. Smith, livid at the unauthorized?but not inaccurate?use of her name, called Harlow, who admitted that the calls had been made. Brooke rushed onto the Senate floor and spread the word that Maggie Smith was not yet in the Administration's camp...
Though the issue seemed decided, no one could be absolutely certain that all of the votes would be delivered on the roll call. Spectators were crunched into every inch of the galleries and scores of senatorial aides crowded the floor aisles as Vice President Agnew, fumbling, announced that "the question is on the nomination of George Howard Carswell." The clerk called "Aiken," and Vermont's senior Senator immediately answered "Aye." Then bells rang throughout the Senate side of the Capitol, signaling the start of the roll call, and the chamber fell silent...
...inquest into the accident. District Attorney Edmund Dinis, who had access to both the transcript and the report on the proceedings by Presiding Justice James Boyle, told the jurors there was not enough evidence to indict Kennedy on any of the charges. The jurors themselves made no move to call anyone involved in the events surrounding the accident; four new witnesses, who testified for less than 20 minutes in all, provided nothing useful in the way of evidence...