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Senatorial nose count: Evans & Novak believe President Nixon may have lost six votes in the Senate as a result of transcript release. They now give him 32 votes (two fewer than needed to acquit) and report these changes from two weeks earlier: Senators Allen (Ala.), Hansen (Wyo.), Helms (N.C.), and Young (N.D.) are now listed as “hardcore,” instead of “super-hardcore”; they list former hardcore Senators Scott (Pa.), Minority Leader, and Griffin (Mich.), Minority Whip, along with Marlow Cook (Ky.) and Georgia Democrats Talmadge and Nunn as no longer hardcore. . . . Sen. William Brock, chairman of the Senatorial Campaign Committee, puts it on the line. He’s having a “great deal of trouble” raising money for senatorial contests this year, he says, and adds “Watergate has done us a considerable amount of harm. There is no question about that”. . . . Even Nixon loyalist Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire, who has decided to run for reelection, says he will not invite the President to campaign for him. . . . The ADA, which came out for impeachment way back in 1971, before Watergate, not only wants Nixon impeached, its national convention adopted position that Nixon should not be granted immunity from any prosecution in return for possible resignation. . . . The Treasury reports that any “donation of presidential tapes to the government” cannot be used for tax deductions. . . . Bookstores report the transcripts are selling faster than anything since The Exorcist. . . . The University of Florida has added a course on impeachment to its summer curriculum (the better to understand Mr. Rodino, dear). . . . And in Washington, a new bumper sticker: impeach THE (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

“I’ve never claimed I could control the entire tide— merely this particular segment of it.”

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Senatorial nose count: Evans & Novak believe President Nixon may have lost six votes in the Senate as a result of transcript release. They now give him 32 votes (two fewer than needed to acquit) and report these changes from two weeks earlier: Senators Allen (Ala.), Hansen (Wyo.), Helms (N.C.), and Young (N.D.) are now listed as “hardcore,” instead of “super-hardcore”; they list former hardcore Senators Scott (Pa.), Minority Leader, and Griffin (Mich.), Minority Whip, along with Marlow Cook (Ky.) and Georgia Democrats Talmadge and Nunn as no longer hardcore. . . . Sen. William Brock, chairman of the Senatorial Campaign Committee, puts it on the line. He’s having a “great deal of trouble” raising money for senatorial contests this year, he says, and adds “Watergate has done us a considerable amount of harm. There is no question about that”. . . . Even Nixon loyalist Gov. Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire, who has decided to run for reelection, says he will not invite the President to campaign for him. . . . The ADA, which came out for impeachment way back in 1971, before Watergate, not only wants Nixon impeached, its national convention adopted position that Nixon should not be granted immunity from any prosecution in return for possible resignation. . . . The Treasury reports that any “donation of presidential tapes to the government” cannot be used for tax deductions. . . . Bookstores report the transcripts are selling faster than anything since The Exorcist. . . . The University of Florida has added a course on impeachment to its summer curriculum (the better to understand Mr. Rodino, dear). . . . And in Washington, a new bumper sticker: impeach THE (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

“I’ve never claimed I could control the entire tide— merely this particular segment of it.”