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===Conkling and Platt fail to rebuke Garfield===
===Conkling and Platt fail to rebuke Garfield===
[[File:Thomas C. "Tom" Platt LOC picture.png|thumb|left|200px|Platt, who along with Conkling resigned from the Senate.]]
Although Garfield had initially vowed to meet Stalwart patronage demands, he turned his back on Conkling and claimed he never agreed to specific promises. Garfield nominated for New York Collector of the Port [[William H. Robertson]],<ref name=npsinfo/> a Half-Breed who opposed Grant in 1880.<ref name=theremarkableroscoept1/> This elicited Conkling's fury, as traditionally presidential appointments for a state would first "require" the approval of the respective state's U.S. senators.
Although Garfield had initially vowed to meet Stalwart patronage demands, he turned his back on Conkling and claimed he never agreed to specific promises. Garfield nominated for New York Collector of the Port [[William H. Robertson]],<ref name=npsinfo/> a Half-Breed who opposed Grant in 1880.<ref name=theremarkableroscoept1/> This elicited Conkling's fury, as traditionally presidential appointments for a state would first "require" the approval of the respective state's U.S. senators.