Word: burger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well with Ford, who has tactfully made the point during his month-long confirmation hearings that he did not "belong" to Richard Nixon on a number of issues. Faced with Ford's opposition, the White House quickly surrendered. This week, if all goes as planned, Chief Justice Warren Burger will swear in Jerry Ford as Vice President in his own setting-the hall of the House of Representatives...
Once while sitting as a trial judge, Chief Justice Warren Burger listened patiently as a young prosecutor presented nearly an hour of expert testimony on fingerprint evidence. Burger naturally assumed that the case would hinge on a disputed fingerprint. To his consternation, he eventually discovered that the fingerprint was not in question at all; the defense accepted it. Not for the first or last time, Burger had been victimized by a familiar courtroom figure: the inept trial attorney...
Unsure of himself and his field, such a lawyer often bogs courts down in otiose efforts to cover every unthought-of contingency; or, at the opposite extreme, he may sink a client's case by missing a critical point. After 42 years as a practicing lawyer and judge, Burger has sadly concluded that perhaps as many as one-half of all lawyers who appear in American courts are incompetent. Last week, in a speech at Fordham Law School, the Chief declared that it was high time special additional training and testing be required before a lawyer may call himself...
...Secretary Ron Ziegler of his decision and outlined his plan of action. Loving surprises the way most politicians love parades, he would unveil his nominee with the same kind of full dress performance in the East Room that he had played effectively when he sprung the nomination of Warren Burger as his Chief Justice...
There is no better sampling of opinion in daily U.S. journalism than the three-year-old Op-Ed page of the New York Times. It carries the regular columnists of the Times plus outside contributors both obscure and famous. Such disparate commentators as Warren Burger, Casey Stengel and Alexander Solzhenitsyn find a place along with college students and soldiers...