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...whites who "always manage to find some issue other than race to which they give their priority attention, the latest of which is pollution and the ecology." He listed some specific Government acts that he contended have "given encouragement to the Southern racists." Among them were the nominations of Clement Haynsworth Jr. and George Harrold Carswell to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pat Moynihan memo suggesting a "benign neglect" of racial problems and the Administration's initial support, now reversed, of tax exemption for "white, separate private schools...
...Warren Court. The outcome was just that, but it was not really Burger's doing so much as it was the U.S. Senate's. A seat on the court remained empty for virtually the entire term, the result of the Senate's rejections of Nixon Nominees Clement Haynsworth and George Harrold Carswell. With only eight, and sometimes seven* justices sitting, the court sidestepped decisions on some of the most controversial cases argued before it. It was, according to Law Professor Alexander Bickel of Yale, "the year of the pause...
...feeling of freedom; and a sense of dignity only results from self-determination. If people do not have a role in the decision-making process of institutions directly affecting their lives, such as new community organizations, the goals of CAP drift into the realm of the illusory. The clement of power rests at the heart of any discussion about CAP. Even if funds from the OEO or other governmental agencies stand behind the proposols of nationwide CAP's, the poor of each community must have the power, or some power, to decide how those funds will be utilized...
...needed more vocal support within his own party, Dole provided it. He played an active role in the battle for the ABM program last summer and, despite his reservations about the President's choices, went down the line for the White House on the Supreme Court nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell...
...movie trying to force Mellie to confess to murder; she spends most of her time trying to figure out just whom she killed. One unsure note is the convenient reason she resists Bronson's insistent interrogation: a childhood trauma has made her reluctant to confess anything. Still, Clement weaves his intrigues so deftly that such minor annoyances never seriously intrude...