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Page Two THE NEW BERN MIRROR, NEW BERN, N. C. Friday, November 17, 1972 I President Nixon, who barely won his first term in a soueaker over Hubert Humphrey in 1968, has now received one of the greatest popular and electoral votes in history. Analyzing the victory, the President seems to have laid the groundwork for his mandate • UNIFORMED SECURITY GUARDS - INDUSTRIAL OR RESIDENTIAL • GENERAL INVESTIGATION EASTERN DETECTIVE AGENCY 2608 Neuse Blvd. NEW BERN, N. C. 637-6516 W. C. CHADWICK GENERAL INSURANCE Clark Building Telephones Office ME 7-3146 Home ME 7-3432 last year in several dramatic turnabouts. To avert economic chaos he adopted wage and price controls, thus lessening domestic worries about in flation. He also changed American foreign policy in decisions to visit China and Russia, which he implemented this year. But more im portantly, the coalition of Democrats that had held together for a generation finally fell apart in the hard fought primaries which culminated in the nomination of George McGovern. WfiA could have been a close election turned into a walkway for Nixon. Apart from the Presidential contest, the elections went according to no pattern. There appears to be little change in the Democratic control of the Senate and House. As of this writing, the Democrats have gained two seats in the Senate, although North Carolina elected Jesse Helms as my colleague, and he will -be the first Republican in 69 years to H.K.LAND VSOH ■ts^ssaas Complete Real Estate Service ILK« SW.DINa DIAL «I7'4U1 DIAL «M-3737 dottzn ^unexat cJ^oms., (Jnc. •The Home of Dignified and Friendly Service” PHONE 637-31S1 2201 NEUSE BLVD. P. O. BOX 2323 NEW BERN. N. C. 28B60 YOUIL PROBABLY FIND IT AT Askew’s, Inc. 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Virginia, Oklahoma, and New Mexico also shifted Democratic Senate seats over to the Republican side of the aisle. These, however, were offset by Democratic gains in South Dakota, Kentucky, Iowa, Colorado, and Maine. What had promised to be potential upsets never developed in the Senate races in Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Montana, New Hampshire, Oregon, Rhode Island, and .Texas. With some exceptions caused by retirement and a primary defeat, the Senate Committ^ and Subcommittee chair manships will continue as they are at the next session. The South will benefit in this by having eight out of seventeen Committee chairmen. These are Senator Talmadge, Agriculture and Forestry; Senator McClellan, Ap propriations; Senator Stennis, Armed Services; Senator Sparkman, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs; Senator Long, Finance; Senator Fullvight, Foreign Relations; Senator Elastiand, Judiciary; and I have the privilege of chairing Government Operations. In the House, Southerners will likely continue as chairmen of seven powerful Committees. These include Agriculture, Appropriations, Armed Ser vices, Banking and Currency, Ways and Means, the Select Committee on Crime, and the Select Committee on Small Business. Overall the next Congress many be a little different in its liberal-conservative makeup. The prospect is that there will not be a great deal of change either in its organization or its voting patterns. Once elected. Members of Congress and to reflect the views of their par ticular constituencies, and there seems to be no clear-cut national consensus on many issues. The essential mandate given in last Tuesday’s elec tions appear to be that of con tinuity (rf government with the President proposing new and old remedies affecting both domestic and foreign policy and Congress disposing of legislation in accordance with the nation’s mood. 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