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...second-ranking official. No one on the committee has raised serious doubts about his fitness for the job. But the G.O.P. members have been holding the nomination hostage while they take political pot shots at the Administration. "We're all political animals," admits Nevada Republican Paul Laxalt...
Baker is operating amidst what he concedes to be "a lot of political danger." Unless he can get a majority of Republican Senators with him, he risks attack as a traitor to his party by such G.O.P. conservatives as Strom Thurmond and Paul Laxalt. That could damage, if not destroy, any chance of his becoming the Republican candidate for President in 1980. Says Baker: "The key to the thing is to assure people we are not sacrificing the security interests of the United States...
...oasis in a Democratic preserve, a group of 30 militant conservatives of both parties met in September to celebrate a crucial victory for which they claimed substantial credit. Paul Weyrich, director of the Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, awarded gleaming brass plaques to Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Richard Viguerie, the movement's genius of the direct-mail campaign. Their combined efforts, exulted Weyrich, had defeated Jimmy Carter's bills for election-day registration and the public financing of senatorial elections, which would have bolstered the Democratic vote. The plaques were inscribed with...
...Viguerie believes that conservatives skipped an entire generation of leadership: "In the '30s, '40s and '50s, we did not graduate young leaders like the Kennedys and the Udalls on the left. But there is a different breed of conservative coming on the scene now." These include Laxalt, 55, and Viguerie, 44, and a group of aggressive Republicans: Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, 43, Illinois Congressman Phil Crane, 46, and California State Senator Bill Richardson...
...Kansas City early, settling into the sweeping elegance of the Alameda Plaza to wage his eleventh-hour fight to prevent an early Ford victory. His campaign manager, John Sears, would direct operations from a 50-ft. trailer outside the glistening arena, working the convention floor through Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and a batch of assistants. Both camps had their carefully prepared charts on how each delegate might vote-and they were poised to pounce on anyone who deviated from the expected. After nine long months of campaign labors, no one last week could be sure of the outcome...