You need the House, you need the Senate and you need the administration. And absent one of them, you're not going to get a heck of a lot done.

Reasons ascribed for the defeat include the fact that after running three times on a strong anti-income tax platform Chafee now said that such a tax was imperative (indeed his anti-tax opponent went on to champion one in 1971); and that he stopped campaigning after his 14-year-old daughter Tribbie was killed in a riding accident. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was chairman of the Senate Finance Committee's Subcommittee on Health Care but his biggest imprint was on environmental concerns. Frequently following a moderate path Chafee was pro-choice on abortion and supported the North American Free Trade Agreement.

John Lester Hubbard Chafee (pron. He served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island as the Secretary of the Navy and as a United States Senator.