Word: burger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your Pompous Honor. Chief Justice Warren Burger has no love for the press, and the press no love for him. The press thinks he imperfectly understands why it needs First Amendment freedoms and suspects him of carrying on a Nixonian vendetta against the press. Still, it's hard not to feel some sympathy for the Chief Justice when reading a summary of an "investigation" of him in Jack Anderson's column"Our investigation turned up a number of disturbing facets of Burger's character, some previously reported and some not-but all ofwhich we confirmed. Put together...
...Burger clearly does not understand what a free press is all about. . . " That should make a free press clearer to the Justice...
...information about the U.S. Supreme Court. Who is the reporter scribbling down the incriminating details? Naturally, Bob Woodward, co-author with Carl Bernstein of The Final Days. Woodward and his new partner, fellow Washington Post Reporter Scott Armstrong, are behind locked doors, working on a book about the Warren Burger Court. Excerpts will appear early next year, and anticipation at the Post is high. Says one editor: "The Supreme Court is the last secret institution in Washington. It's as secret as the CIA, but the process it goes through has never been examined...
...slip into oblivion in South Africa. Much of the countryside, at least around Pretoria, looks much more like the U.S. than Africa. The cities look like smaller versions of our own, and small towns in the Transvaal look just like the Midwest, complete with Kentucky Fried Chicken and Burger King. It looks like home, the part of South Africa where the white population lives--so peaceful, so comfortable and modern. I find it easy to relax, to forget what this standard of living is built...
Angela Davis, another participant in the skit, said that she thought it was especially important for Harvard students to protest the Burger court because "Harvard Law School is seen as a leading institution in the U.S. and has a reputation for being fair...