Word: babbittism
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Even for most of Friday, the President was still undecided. Indeed, it seemed that no one was out of the running. Babbitt was in it; so was Arnold. And then at about 3:45 p.m., with the Oval Office still crowded with members of his selection team, the President asked to be alone. When he summoned them back half an hour later, he said, "I've decided to go with Breyer. I feel comfortable with that...
...call from the President came shortly before midnight on Wednesday. For nearly a month Bruce Babbitt had been heralded as the inside favorite to fill the coming vacancy on the Supreme Court, and now Bill Clinton wanted to talk to him. Could he come over to the White House? Minutes later, Babbitt, in chinos, and Clinton, wearing jeans and an open-collar shirt, were sitting in the upstairs kitchen, carving up the remains of a mangled apple pie, drinking decaf and watching the late, come-from-behind victory of the Phoenix Suns over the Houston Rockets...
...meandered into the President's study, then spent more than two hours in one of Clinton's trademark, late-night rap sessions. Clinton questioned Babbitt on everything from the Interior Department, which the former Governor of Arizona heads, to the history of the Supreme Court. They talked about possible candidates for the court, previous nominees, the 20 or so Senators who would oppose a Babbitt nomination out of pique over his Western-lands policy, the politicians appointed to the high court in the past. Finally, at about 2:30 a.m., with Clinton unflagging, Babbitt departed. Friends say he left feeling...
With those words ended another tortuous episode of indecision in the Clinton White House. Though few who know Stephen Breyer doubt his brilliance as a jurist, the President seemed to lack any compelling reason to prefer him. A Babbitt nomination would have gone further to satisfy the President's stated desire to put someone on the court who had real-world experience as a consensus builder. Arnold, who was once Clinton's law professor, was the choice closest to the President's heart...
...Babbitt--who was in the news yesterday as one of the leading candidates for nomination to the Supreme Court--and Stephanopoulos visited Harvard as part of AmeriCorps National Service Campus Tour '94, a preview to this fall's launch of AmeriCorps. The corps allows college-age students to participate in full-time community service in exchange for funds to finance tuition or pay back student loans...