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...Circuit, is the favorite to fill the next opening on the Supreme Court during a Reagan presidency. As Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, Bork came to public notice for firing Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than do the deed. Bork intended to resign after firing Cox but stayed on when Richardson told him, "If you quit, there will be no Justice Department...
...Rosalynn, 57. "I've done a lot of carpentry before, but not like this. The tallest building in Plains, Ga., is two stories high." After work the former Chief of State read from the New Testament at a local Baptist church, whimsically relating his group's good deed to the Bible: "If Christ came to New York he would probably spend lots of time on the Lower East Side−before it's gentrified that...
Jackson successfully negotiated the release of nearly 50 prisoners from Cuban jails. This deed stamps him as a deft, skilled diplomat whose finesse in sensitive dealings with foreign nations is worthy of special commendation. Jackson should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize...
...candidate: "If in my high moments, I have done some good, offered some service, shed some light, healed some wounds, rekindled some hope ... or in any way ... helped somebody, then this campaign has not been in vain." Next he made a confession: "If in my low moments, in word, deed or attitude, through some error of temper, taste or tone, I have caused anyone discomfort, created pain or revived someone's fears, that was not my truest self.. . Please forgive me. Charge it to my head... so limited in its finitude; [not to] my heart, which is boundless...
...theoretical situation that they have never actually had to face. One Republican pollster points out another factor that may distort the results: the majority of the people employed organizations to question voters are women, and men may hesitate to express unfavorable opinions of a woman candidate to them. In- deed, Mondale's aides admit that their belief that a woman vice-presi- dential candidate will help the ticket is based on gut feelings rather than any statistical evidence...