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By EUGENE MCCARTHY
Rappahannock New*
Guest Columnist
When the last new Senate Office Building was being built a few years ago, economizers, led by Senator Proxmire, successfully eliminated money intended for a gymnasium. This success on the part of the senator and his cohorts made up for an earlier failure on their part some twenty years earlier, * when the iesue was money * to build a new and larger swimming pool in the gymnasium in the old Senate Qffice building, now known as the Russel Building.
The argument of those bent on saving money was that the old pool was adequate. It might have been adequate for a bath but not for swimming. It was about 12 feet long and possibly 10 feet wide. I recall being in it one day, when Senator Stennis of Mississippi, always a gentleman, approached and asked whether I objected to his joining me in the pool. He said he would stand still.
The proponents of the swimming pool project knew that the Proxmire watch was on. On the evening when the last appropriation of the year was under consideration, the watchers, not having found their target in earlier appropriations, moved in, believing that what they were after must be hidden in this last appropriation.
The senator handling the bill spent the better part of an hour denying that there was money in the bill for the swimming pool as a series of questioners attacked him. During the whole time, Senator Chavez of New Mexico sought to interrupt but the intensity of those seeking to uncover the hidden money was so intense that he went unrecognized. When he was recognized, he said that he
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