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...defeats of the Haynsworth and Carswell nominations prefigured one of the more subtle lessons of the past two national elections that Richard Nixon is obviously pondering as he looks forward to November...
...respects Brooke; as President-elect, he offered him a choice of three Cabinet-level jobs: Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and chief of the United Nations delegation. Since then, Brooke has opposed the Administration on major issues-the SST, the ABM, the Haynsworth and Carswell Supreme Court nominations. Last week he announced that he will vote against confirming William Rehnquist for the court. Despite such abrasions, however, the President, as New York Senator Jacob Javits observes, "has always been intrigued by Brooke...
Joseph Rauh Jr., a Washington lawyer active in the fights against the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, was the first of several nationally prominent speakers to address the conference...
...from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action average 90%. Those same political stands earned Kennedy some of the lowest marks for any legislator from the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action. At the same time his strong opposition to key White House proposals?the ABM, the SST, the Carswell and Haynsworth Supreme Court nominations?has won him the Administration's unfailing hostility. Nixon's Director of Communications, Herb Klein, accuses him of "childish tantrums, demagoguery at its worst...
...with the Southern lifestyle. He comes from the wrong place; his appearance is unkempt. To people here, he seems to talk funny and think differently. Southerners will not forget that Kennedy supported Charles Evers in Mississippi, that he was an early Viet Nam dove and that he helped sabotage Haynsworth and Carswell. The code word for all these attitudes is "Chappaquiddick." The word is heard often and is used, says Alabama Democratic State Chairman Bob Vance, "like a kick in the groin." In the Deep South most folks criticize Kennedy for having an unmarried girl in his car, which offends...