He finally received the nomination by defeating Cahill in 1973, but lost the election to Brendan Byrne in a historic landslide.

In 1966, he ran for Congress while still holding his State Senate seat, which he resigned upon winning the federal office.

Sandman was on the House Judiciary Committee when it considered articles of impeachment against President Richard Nixon.

Despite Sandman's change of heart on impeachment, his reputation was severely tarnished by his performance in the televised hearings.

[7] In the 2019 Apple TV+ series, For All Mankind, actor Saul Rubinek played Sandman in a fictional storyline about NASA, Wernher von Braun and other space issues.