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...setting forth his requirements after the Burger appointment???a Southerner from the federal bench, a Republican, a strict constructionist, under 60 and someone Nixon did not personally know?the President limited his options. This ruled out judges on the higher state courts, which often possess talented jurists, men from the South's best law faculties, and U.S. Senators. Even so, the President could have come up with acceptable nominees if he had not relied so completely upon?and been served so poorly by?Mitchell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Seventh Crisis of Richard Nixon | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...think it hot, today? You should feel it in Calcutta! Most people last only five years in India. That was the length of my appointment???long enough! For my duty as Advocate General of Bengal was to act as a sort of personal court of final appeal. Perhaps the greatest single problem which cropped up to face me was whether or not to prosecute Mahatma Gandhi. . . . Will you gentlemen have more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mahatma Hunter | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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