University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Baker Center: Publications and Other Works Baker Center for Public Policy Fall 2012 Baker Center Journal of Applied Public Policy - Vol. IV, No.II Theodore Brown Jr. J Lee Annis Jr. Steven V. Roberts Wendy J. Schiller Jeffrey Rosen See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_bakecentpubs Part of the American Politics Commons, Policy History, Theory, and Methods Commons, and the Public Administration Commons Recommended Citation Career of Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Baker Center for Public Policy at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Baker Center: Publications and Other Works by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors Theodore Brown Jr., J Lee Annis Jr., Steven V. Roberts, Wendy J. Schiller, Jeffrey Rosen, James Hamilton, Rick Perlstein, David B. Cohen, Charles E. Walcott, and Keith Whittington This article is available at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange: https://trace.tennessee.edu/ utk_bakecentpubs/7 vol. 1v no. 2 BAKER CENTER JOURNAL OF BAKER CENTER JOURNAL OF APPLIED PUBLIC POLICY—SPECIAL ISSUE POLICY—SPECIAL PUBLIC APPLIED OF JOURNAL CENTER BAKER APPLIED PUBLIC POLICY Published by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Howard H. Baker, Jr.: A Life in Public Service A Special Issue PREFACE AND OVERVIEW Howard H. Baker, Jr. and the Public Values of Cooperation and Civility: A Preface to the Special Issue Theodore Brown, Jr. Howard H. Baker, Jr.: A Life in Public Service An Overview J. Lee Annis, Jr. ARTICLES We Must Not Be Enemies: Howard H. Baker, Jr. and the Role of Civility in Politics Steven V. Roberts Howard Baker’s Leadership in the U.S. Senate: Lessons in Persuasion, Civility, and Success Wendy J. Schiller Justice Howard Baker Jeffrey Rosen The Senate Watergate Committee: Its Place in History and the Discovery of the White House Tapes James Hamilton Howard Baker and the Meaning and Legacy of Watergate: An Overview Rick Perlstein Cincinnatus of Tennessee: Howard Baker as White House Chief of Staff David B. Cohen and Charles E. Walcott The President’s Nominee: Robert Bork and the Modern Judicial Confirmation Process Keith Whittington IMAGES FROM A LIFE IN PUBLIC SERVICE Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy APPENDIX: Fall 2012 Fall Selected Speeches, Remarks, and Articles by and about Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. The University of Tennessee • 1640 Cumberland Avenue • Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 865-974-0931 • 865-974-8777 (fax) • www.bakercenter.utk.edu • e-mail: [email protected] BAKER CENTER JOURNAL OF APPLIED PUBLIC POLICY vol. 1v no. 2 | Fall 2012 JOURNAL ADVISORY BOARD Howard H. Baker, Jr. formerly of the United States Senate Bob Clement formerly of the United States House of Representatives Joseph Cooper, PhD Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University Emily Reynolds formerly the Secretary of the United States Senate Glenn Harlan Reynolds, JD College of Law, University of Tennessee, Knoxville John Seigenthaler First Amendment Center, Vanderbilt University, and cofounder USA Today EDITORIAL STAFF Theodore Brown Jr., JD Journal Editor Carl A. Pierce, JD Director Emeritus Journal Advisor Nissa Dahlin-Brown, EdD Associate Director Journal Production Manager i The Baker Center Journal of Applied Public Policy is published by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The vision of theBaker Center Journal of Applied Public Policy is to provide public officials, policymakers, political activists, scholars, and citizens with forward-looking commentary and research on matters of public policy. The journal will focus on pragmatic, rather than theoretical, analysis of issues that are regional, national, or international in scope. Thank you for your interest, and please direct any questions to Dr. Nissa Dahlin-Brown, Associate Director, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, (865) 974-0931. www.bakercenter.utk.edu Baker Center Journal of Applied Public Policy Published by THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy VOL. IV NO. II Fall 2012 Copyright 2012 by THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE is an EEO/AA/Title VI/TITLE IX/Section 504/ADA/ADEA institution in the provision of its education and employment programs and services PA #R01-0130-077-001-13 The contents of this Journal were developed under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education. However, those contents do not necessarily represent the policy of the U.S. Department of Education, and you should not assume endorsement by the Federal Government. ii University Administration Joe DiPietro, DVM President Jimmy G. Cheek, PhD Chancellor Susan D. Martin, PhD Provost Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy Matthew M. Murray, PhD Director Carl A. Pierce, JD Director Emeritus Nissa Dahlin-Brown, EdD Associate Director Patti Rebholz Business Manager Michelle Castro Development Director iii Contents PREFACE AND OVERVIEW Howard H. Baker, Jr. and the Public Values of Cooperation and Civility: A Preface to the Special Issue ....................................................................................................1 Theodore Brown, Jr. Howard H. Baker, Jr.: A Life in Public Service An Overview ..............................................................................................................................4 J. Lee Annis, Jr. ARTICLES We Must Not Be Enemies: Howard H. Baker, Jr. and the Role of Civility in Politics ........................................................9 Steven V. Roberts Howard Baker’s Leadership in the U.S. Senate: Lessons in Persuasion, Civility, and Success ...........................................................................28 Wendy J. Schiller Justice Howard Baker ................................................................................................ 49 Jeffrey Rosen The Senate Watergate Committee: Its Place in History and the Discovery of the White House Tapes .............................................................................................................. 54 James Hamilton Howard Baker and the Meaning and Legacy of Watergate: An Overview ............................................................................................................................63 Rick Perlstein Cincinnatus of Tennessee: Howard Baker as White House Chief of Staff ......................................................................69 David B. Cohen and Charles E. Walcott The President’s Nominee: Robert Bork and the Modern Judicial Confirmation Process .................................................................................................85 Keith Whittington IMAGES FROM A LIFE IN PUBLIC SERVICE ........................ following 99 APPENDIX: Selected Speeches, Remarks, and Articles by and about Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr. ..............................................................................................101 Howard H. Baker, Jr. and the Public Values of Cooperation and Civility: A Preface to the Special Issue Theodore Brown, Jr.1 The rincipalp articles published in this Special Issue of the Journal are expanded versions of papers presented by a distinguished group of scholars, journalists, and other commentators at a two-day conference, “Howard H. Baker, Jr.: A Life in Public Service,” sponsored by the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy in November, 2010, in connection with the observance of Senator Baker’s eighty-fifth birthday. That conference and this Special Issue represent, collectively, the products of the initial major initiative of the relatively new Baker Studies Program at the Baker Center. To enhance the topics addressed by the principal articles, the editors have included in the Special Issue a selection of speeches, remarks, and articles by and about Senator Baker and a collection of photographic and cartoon images from various stages in his lengthy career in public service. Theauthor of one of the principal articles, Steve Roberts, who covered Capitol Hill for The New York Times during Senator Baker’s tenures in the Unites States Senate and as White House chief of staff, recently observed that “Senator Baker reflected certain values—bipartisanship, a respect for the institution, a sense of civility, a belief in the value of compromise—values that are far less visible today” in Washington than when he was there.2 I think it is fair to say that this summation of the qualities that so distinguished Senator Baker’s career in public service set the tone and established one of the primary themes of the conference at the Baker Center that provided the impetus for this Special Issue of the Journal. The esirabilityd and use of cooperation and civility in our interactions with one another are, indeed, public values that are central to understanding both the effectiveness of Howard Baker as a public servant and the abiding esteem and affection with which he is regarded by those who worked with him during his career in public life. The sociologist Richard Sennett reminds us that the task of conflict management in the context of making a complex society work requires both cooperation and civility. The capacity for cooperation, or the ability