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Well, one reason, I suppose, is that I have always been ambitious, always wanted to get ahead. I remember an uncle of mine who once cautioned me: "John, you've got to stop to smell the flowers...
...really haven't given that a lot of thought. Some, but not a lot. I do know this: I'm grateful that I am young enough to have plenty of time now to stop and smell the flowers. There are many things I enjoy doing that I haven't given myself time to do. Now I will. I did, after all, rise to a very high position in the Government. I've been there, and I have no desire to go back...
...Sweet Smell. A schoolmate recollects: "At eight or nine, when most boys were talkin' fishin', huntin' and playin' hooky, Howard Henry was talkin' jurisprudence and double jeopardy." He graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1949, then joined the law firm founded by his paternal grandfather in 1885. Young Baker quickly earned a reputation as a shrewd cross-examiner in courtroom exchanges. His natural proclivities for politics were cemented by his marriage to Joy Dirksen, only child of the late, grandiloquent Senator from Illinois...
...public he turns aside questions about it by recalling the day during his freshman year in the Senate when New Hampshire's crusty Norris Cotton asked: "Can you smell the sweet smell of white marble?" No, said Baker, chuckling at the quaint image. Replied Cotton: "When you're here long enough, you will and you'll like it. From that moment on, you won't be worth a damn...
Baker now admits: "I could detect a faint trace of that smell three or four years ago-but I don't now." In 1969 and 1971 he brashly challenged Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania for the Republican Senate leadership and lost; now he cautiously shrugs aside pointed teasing by colleagues in the Senate cloakroom that his work on the Watergate committee is a prelude to a bigger role...