How Jeffords Got Away.

Focuses on the defection of United States Senator James Jeffords from the Republican Party. View that hostility from the Republican Party began to wear him down; Policies which Jeffords disapproved of; Jeffords' denial that he struck a deal with Democrats to chair the Environment and Public Works Committee; How he was recruited by Senators Tom Daschle and Harry Reid. INSET: THE MAN BEHIND THE QUAKE, by Michele Orecklin and William Dowell.