Howard Baker and the Lost Art of Bipartisanship

Howard Baker and the Lost Art of Bipartisanship

Howard Baker was elected to the U.S. Senate from Tennessee in 1966. He later told people that when he arrived in Congress, he was taken aside by Norris Cotton, a Republican from New Hampshire, who asked whether he could smell the marble. “I didn’t know marble had a smell,” Baker replied, according to a Tennessee congressman who told me the anecdote. “Well, white marble, the kind around here does. And when you can smell it, you’ll like it. And you’ll be ruined for life,” Cotton advised.
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