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Show | History he was just three years out of the University of Florida Law School. He successfully ran against an incumbent who had held theoffice for’ 10 years and was considered a shoo-in. Chiles and his wife Rhea, knocked on more than 14,000 doors in his home county during that person-to-person campaign. Chiles doesn’t want to be categorized as to how he'll vote in the Senate. “I’m a progressive conservative,” he said. “That means I’m not going to vote ‘yes’ on everything, but at the same time, I'm not going to stick my head in the sand.” One of his campaign promises wasthat he'll visit each of Florida’s 13 Congressional districts forat least one An intimate glimpse into the minds. and lives of seven new U.S. Senators an Illinois Secretary of State. And his great-grandfather was a two-term U.S. Vice President under Grover Cleveland. A Korean war Marine veteran and Harvard Law School graduate, 40-year- old Adlai III has enjoyed a remarkable six-year political career. He was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1964. Then he was State Treasurer prior to winning the Senate seat left vacantby the death of Everett Dirksen. But success has not diluted his appeal as < man of modestyandintellect; softspoken but forceful; and a home-loving man whose one reservation about politics is that it “divides the family.” As a U.S. Senator, Stevenson will Robert A. Taft, R., Ohio His grandfather was President, his father wanted to be one, but Robert Taft, Ohio's freshman U.S. Senator, has no higher ambitions. “I don’t envy any manthat job,” he said. At 53, the three-term Congressman from Cincinnati is where he wants to be. For him, the U.S. Senate is the top job, and he has beenafter it since 1964 when he fost a campaign to get there. Taft said he felt no need to follow his father into the Senate. But when he did decide to run for office, he found it a political asset to have a famous father. Like the latter, who had a reputation for independence, the new Senator Taft is also independent, even of his father’s memory. “You make your own decisions,” he said. “You can’t model yourself on someone else, or on ideas that were dominant 30 years ago.” While many think of the elder Taft as the Barry Goldwater of his era, the younger Taft feels his father’s reputation as a conservative is largely a myth. “He was more ‘Mr. Individualist,’” he said. “He believed in individualism Illinois’ Stevenson clan:(I. to r.) Adlai IV, Katy, Sen. Adlai Stevenson, 111, Warwick (in rear), Lucy, and wife, Nancy, at family home in Chicago's Northside. week each year in order to keep in touch with the people. The Chiles’ have four children. Daughters Tandy, 18, and Rhea Gay, four. Both live at home. Theeldestson, Lawton Chiles, III, attends private school in Pottstown, Pa., while his youngerbrother, Ed, is a junior at Lakeland Senior High. Mrs.Chilesis “‘alittle apprehensive” about living in Washington, she admits, but she and the children are “looking forward” to the excitement of their new life. Adlai Stevenson, D.,Ill. The already politically famous name of Stevenson has returned to Washington with the election of Adlai III, the new junior Senator from Illinois. He represents the continuation of a long line of Stevenson statesmen. His late father was a governor, a two-time candidate for President, and a U.N. Ambassador. His grandfather was miss his farm home in northwestern Illinois. It was there that he, his wife Nancy, and their four children enjoyed a typical Midwestern Christmas. Stevenson admits he'll also miss his favorite exercise—cutting down dead pine trees and chopping the wood forthefireplace. He hopes to get back to the farm long enough this spring to plant some more pine trees, adding to the 1,500 he put in last year. And he will also enjoy returning from time to time to his family home on Chicago's Northside. The children—Adlai IV, 14; Lucy, 12; Katherine, 10; and Warwick, nine— and their friends fill the house with laughter through the day. Late at night, Adlai works or reads in the serenity of his second-floorlibrary. In this room, he relaxes in the black leather chair his father used when he was in Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet in Washington 25 years ago. very strongly and felt this was a key philosophyin our society.” Taft has four children by his first wife, Blanca Noel, who died two years ago. Robert Taft, II, 29, works for the Illinois Bureau of Budgets. Jonathan D. Taft, 16, is in high school in Massachusetis. One daughter, Sara T. Jones, 27, is married to a lawyer and living in New York City, and the other daughter, Deborah, 24, is studying film-making in Paris. Taft married the former Catherine Perry in 1969. Two of her children live with them in Cincinnati, where the family homesiead—an eightbedroom Colonial—sits atop one of the city’s picturesque hills. In Washington, Senator Taft is where he wants to be. Senator Taft rents a townhouse. John V. Tunney, D., Calif. Already mentioned as potential Vice Presidential or even Presidential material, Sen. John V. Tunney has what appears to be an impossible dream: a more orderly family life. “A campaign is rough on a family,” he says. “You're not together very often.” And Tunney spent most of 1970 campaigning. His Dutch-born wife Mieke and their two boys, Mark, six, and Edward, nine, spent the summer with him. But he was gone most of the time. Mieke—whom he met at law school in Holland—also was often away, campaigning in towns John couldn’t fit into his schedule. On election night as the family watched returns, Mark fell asleep. But Edward was awake. With victory apparent, he scowled at the tv and snarled, “I hope all Republicans lose.” After the election, the family spent three days at a resort, then John and Mieke vacationed together before returning to the Washington, D.C., home they have lived in since John waselected to the House in 1964. A week later, he had to fly back to California. “Why do you have to go?” nis younger son asked. “I thought you won.” Tunney gave the answer at a breakfast in Riverside. (Continued on page 9) Senator Tunney of Calif., here with wife Mieke and son Edward, has bright future. Ws |