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...THIS whole proposals style is m?st important. The style of withdrawal must be different from the style of confrontation, or it is just another from of confromtation. A key clement to the success of such a university, as with the success of a newspaper, is that it not be outwardly threatening, but that it generate its own quiet appeal...
What compromised Carswell's chances most, though, was a parliamentary gimmick thought up last week by his Senate opponents. Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana, a Democrat who led the fight against Clement Haynsworth, introduced a motion to send the Carswell nomination back to the Judiciary Committee-ostensibly for further hearings. For practical purposes, however, sending a nominee's name back to committee is a shelving device that permits the nomination to die quietly...
...could afford to do so. While few Senators can find much to rave about in Carswell's record, fewer still can find enough to deny him their vote. Liberal Republicans who bucked Nixon on the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system and the nomination of Clement Haynsworth are loath to buck him again and must be shown something of a grave nature to deny him Carswell. Subjective criticism of his judicial talents, a 22-year-old racist speech, and other evidence of a segregationist past are considered insufficient reason to reverse the Senate tradition that a President is entitled...
When Carswell's critics complain that he is judicially incompetent, they are really making two charges. Even more than Clement Haynsworth, they feel Carswell lacks the political acumen to cope wisely with the issues of a combustible era - in particular racial discrimination. And unlike Haynsworth, they regard Carswell as deficient in basic legal skills. When Carswell boasts that he never accepted a fee while on the bench, they reply: "Who on earth would...
Unheard Call. Then in succession came Administration policy on school-desegregation guidelines, voting rights, the nominations to the Supreme Court of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, and the departure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare of Leon Panetta, who had been a determined fighter for desegregation of schools in the South. "And let's use the right word," said Brooke. "He was fired...