 He was a campaign worker under presidential candidate, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and experienced many feats during his time entering the U.S. Senate.He is known for opposing both the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 The Tower Amendment liquidated the rule that both men and women’s  intercollegiate sports, taking place in federal financially funded institutions, needed to generate the same amount of revenue.Many senators disagreed with the Tower Amendment and their reasoning stemmed from arguments made by former Democratic Senator, Birch Bayh, that it would create “blanket exemption from Title IX” and propositions from the Subcommittee on Education that “all athletic scholarships should be limited to men”.