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...life," she said with an anxious smile. Yet her fate was never in doubt. By a vote of 99 to 0,* the Senate made Judge O'Connor Justice O'Connor, the Supreme Court's first female member in its 191 years. Even Republican Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, the only member of the Judiciary Committee who refused to recommend O'Connor's confirmation, acquiesced this time. He confessed that colleagues warned him they would "laugh me out of the Senate" if he voted...
...Dogged Denton...
...bless Senator Jeremiah Denton [June 8]. If I live to be 100, I will never forget the pride I felt when he stepped off that plane from Viet Nam and kissed the American soil. Oldfashioned? Maybe. But patriotism will never die so long as there are men like Senator Denton to pass on their deep convictions...
...nominate Senator Denton's hare-brained scheme to appropriate $30 million for a program to promote teen-age chastity for Senator Proxmire's "Golden Fleece" award...
...Denton's youth was rootless. He attended at least 13 grammar schools and lived in hotels where his father was a desk clerk. He came to know a settled family life only when his parents separated. His mother, a devout Roman Catholic, kept the children with her. Denton's father was a womanizer, a real estate speculator, a onetime bookie. Four decades later, Denton acknowledges that he is still preoccupied enough by his father to campaign for family life...