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Bright Spots. For the most part, Republican bright spots were confined to wins by moderates and liberals who had not been identified with Nixon. Among the notable survivors: Governors William G. Milliken of Michigan and Robert D. Ray of Iowa; Senators Jacob K. Javits of New York, Richard Schweiker of...
Still, many state-level Republicans shook off the dust of defeat and began trying to rebuild. In Illinois, for example, the party in recent years had fallen under the control of conservatives, who alienated moderates. "We'd better get the message," declared Senator Charles Percy, as he called for a...
Unfashionable as it has become, the word charisma may have to be revived to describe Arkansas' new Senator Dale Bumpers, 49. He is so charismatic, in fact, that a lot of people, to their sorrow, have had trouble taking him seriously. "Dandy Dale" they have called him, "the man...
A more surprising event, reported by Doi Dan Toc on September 23, was Henry Cabot Lodge's secret entry into South Vietnam, kept secret from the Western press. Meanwhile, Douglas Pike, once a CIA agent, had also arrived, and saw many political leaders, mainly moderates connected with religious groups who...
Dan Rather, whose acerbic press-conference quizzing of Nixon outraged the former President's defenders, and his lesser-known colleague, Gary Paul Gates, make a brisk and balanced case for their assertion. Nixon, they write, had an obsessive fear of a political threat from the liberal Ted Kennedy. The...