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...founding member of the Senate's Wednesday Club of liberal and moderate Republicans, supported Medicare and federal rent subsidies. He was one of the earliest Republican doves. He voted against the Nixon Administration on the ABM and on the Supreme Court nominations of G. Harrold Carswell and Clement Haynsworth. Schweiker also voted to override every one of Nixon's 14 vetoes. For such behavior, he earned a place on Nixon's enemies list. Only on the issues of abortion, gun control and busing-all of which he opposes-has Schweiker deviated from the liberal canon. A student...
...read that Duke Ellington had composed a sacred concert for jazz, and promptly arranged for the Duke to give its world premiere at the cathedral. Nobody asked Ellington to join any memorial service to the bishop. But when the Duke heard there would be such a gathering at St. Clement's Church in Manhattan, he came, led the congregation in a hymn, then made one of his rare solo appearances at the piano. He explained: "I loved that...
...contract, as defined by the 13th Amendment, by the policies of the schools. The Justice Department, in a brief filed by Solicitor General Robert Bork, argues in support of the decisions of the lower courts that such a denial of rights has occurred. As Appeals Court Chief Judge Clement Haynsworth Jr. wrote in one of those decisions, the law "is a limitation upon private discrimination, and its enforcement ... is not a deprivation of any right of free association or privacy of the defendants ... or of their pupils or patrons...
...state legislature. His independent move cost Browning re-election in 1938, but he came bellowing back in 1948, the same year Estes Kefauver was elected to the U.S. Senate. Committed to God and segregation, Browning was Governor till 1953, when he was succeeded by Crump-backed Candidate Frank Clement...
...many Laborites regard Jenkins as a cultural snob with no taste for the rough give and take of either domestic or international politics. The son of a Welsh coal miner who became parliamentary secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Jenkins was a student at Oxford's Balliol College, where he took first honors in politics, philosophy and economics. He also acquired an upper-class "mandarin" accent, excellent French and a taste for claret and opera-none of which are especially valued by the party's old guard...