margaret chase smith, publican senator from maine, deck -- declaration of conscience against joseph mccarthy. charles mathias, a republican senator from maryland. basically every liberal or moderate republican in the senate, and even a couple of conservatives, robert griffin, charles caddell, a short-term interim senator. goodell had been hoping for a full term if he could get elected. haynesworth goes down to defeat, 55-45. nixon is astonished. he assumed this would be a safe thing. the fortas confirmation was a one-off. the fortas confirmation change the rules of the game. they would be more willing to look at supreme court nominees with a degree of skepticism. as we will see over the next several weeks. that pattern continues at several points in the future. nixon at this point has two options. just to conclude this is a democratically controlled senate, republicans are not the majority. he concluded that in that senate, there simply is not a majority for a very conservative southern judge who might be perceived as hostile to civil rights. and he needs to look elsewhere. that would have b