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Lukewarm Governor. Mike Di Salle plopped into an armchair, draped one hefty leg over the side and, with a trace of anger, said that he was mighty annoyed by a rash of Washington-datelined news stories saying that Kennedy was in Ohio for a showdown and would enter the state's presidential primary next May whether Di Salle liked it or not. Explaining that he hoped to avoid a party-splitting primary fight, Di Salle said that he himself was strongly tempted to lead a unified delegation-as its favorite son. What he left unsaid, but what Kennedy might...
...openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
Past midnight, the bright white light atop the Capitol dome still shone over Washington, signaling that Congress was still in session. On the Senate floor, after six months of stalling, wrangling and maneuvering, U.S. history's bitterest battle over confirmation of a presidential appointment marched toward the showdown...
...Never. When news of the Times interview reached Erhard, he was still smarting at the defeat he suffered at the hands of Adenauer the week before. "This is an impertinence!" he rasped. "The old man has done it again." Demanding a showdown, he went before a hurriedly arranged party caucus the same morning to state his case. Adenauer was conspicuously absent-asked by party aides to stay away-as Erhard rose to fume: "There seems to be a method behind [the Chancellor's] attitude . . . My reputation is to be systematically destroyed." For once, no one stood to defend...
With neither side confident enough of victory to be eager for a showdown, the Strauss affair dragged on, may come to a vote before next week...