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...course. He asked the American Bar Association to give its opinion of the fitness of Virginia Representative Richard H. Poff, despite rising complaints from civil rights groups and the threat of another Senate nomination fight by Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who led the successful opposition to Nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. But just as the A.B.A. was about to make its private recommendation to the President, Poff telephoned a Nixon aide and said that he did not wish to have his name considered for the nomination. He noted the charges of "racist" already raised against...
...they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, the court is in need of new stature...
Though the American Orthodox Church maintains cordial ties with Perry's denomination, it has a "high church" tone markedly distinct from the evangelical character of the Metropolitan Community churches. Until three years ago, Father Robert M. Clement, 46, the New York denomination's mustachioed, long-haired founder, was a priest in the Polish National Catholic
...Clement's congregation uses Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Holy Apostle for its services, but the Episcopal hierarchy has not approved of all of Clement's ventures. Though last month's robing ceremony for the Companions of St. John took place in the church's sanctuary, Bishop Horace W.B. Donegan asked them not to use the church for a widely publicized solemnization of a "holy union" between Pastor Clement and his lover of twelve years, John Noble, 50. Instead, the ceremony took place at an off-Broadway theater, the Performing Garage...
...criticism from the right on the strength of his earlier hard line against Communism. Notes Congressman John Schmitz, a John Bircher who represents Nixon's home district in California: "If you get a reputation for being an early riser, you can sleep till 11." Says Chicago Businessman W. Clement Stone, a large contributor to conservative campaign coffers and Nixon's biggest 1968 financial backer: "After 20 years, we'd better face life as it is. Good common sense dictates that we take a hard look at that situation and put aside our emotions...