Word: appointed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...storm had been rising over the evident mediocrity of the candidates the President was considering for the distinguished chairs of John Harlan and the late Hugo Black. As Nixon settled behind his desk in the Oval Office to announce his choices over television, he was almost universally expected to appoint Little Rock Lawyer Herschel Friday and California Court of Appeals Judge Mildred Lillie?nominees widely regarded as obscure and unsatisfactory. It looked like Haynsworth and Carswell all over again, some Senators predicted, with another vitriolic fight over confirmation. "As a group," Edward Kennedy had said, the six candidates Nixon...
...Mexican-American leaders found Lindsay "too generalized" in his comments and "quite evasive" on specifics. One specific: a request for a commitment to appoint a Chicano to the U.S. Supreme Court. "Lindsay told us only that we 'ought to participate' in the judicial process," said Armando Rodriguez, head of the Mexican-American Political Association. "Hell, we already know that...
...modernization program that will include an expanded library and gymnasium as well as a shower for each cell block-a particular gripe of prisoners who normally are allowed to bathe only once a week. Governor Nelson Rockefeller asked five judges of the state court of appeals to appoint a commission to investigate all aspects of the rebellion. Last week the judges named a diverse nine-man commission to be headed by Robert B. McKay, Dean of the New York University Law School...
...Labor could balk in many ways. At a minimum, Meany could refuse to appoint the labor members of any tripartite wage-price review board or labor advisers to any other Government board. That would gut any attempt by Nixon to put across his wage-price policy politically as one that had the consent of both labor and management. At the extreme, the labor movement could support a test-case strike by some union demanding a larger pay raise than the review board deemed justified. The Government would then have a choice of buying peace by overruling its own board...
...another subject, Kennedy said he hoped that President Nixon would appoint Supreme Court justices committed to "progressive, liberal thought...