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...Baxter '90 knew he was in for some surprises when he signed on to pitch with the Jamestown Expos in the New York-Penn League, the Class A circuit that has spawned stars like Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs and Dwight Gooden. But this was ridiculous...
...Baxter '90 knew he was in for some surprises when he signed on to pitch with the Jamestown Expos in the New York-Penn League, the Class A circuit that has spawned stars like Don Mattingly, Wade Boggs and Dwight Gooden. But this was ridiculous...
There was a certain exhilaration in the scurry and posturing of special interests, ringed around the central issue of abortion, but there was also concern. One of Washington's talented lawyers, Roemer McPhee, recalled how, as a young attorney in Dwight Eisenhower's White House, he harbored a mild doubt when Ike in 1956 nominated Democrat William Brennan, a practicing liberal. But McPhee, from New Jersey too, knew that Brennan was a thoughtful and decent man. Brennan was confirmed with hardly a ripple...
Brennan, an Irish Roman Catholic and Democrat, was plucked from the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1956 by Dwight Eisenhower, who hoped that the nomination would help undermine Democrat Adlai Stevenson's liberal challenge to his bid for a second term. Three years earlier Eisenhower had appointed Warren, the Republican Governor of California. He later pointed to Warren and Brennan as two of the "biggest mistakes" he had made...
...Quayle was not raised among people who shied from extremes. He is the coeval of the cold war: the year of his birth, 1947, also gave us the CIA, the Attorney General's list of subversives and the internal-security program. When Quayle was five years old, Dwight Eisenhower carried Indiana with the help of Quayle's grandfather, publisher Eugene Pulliam, and William Jenner, who were, respectively, the right and the far right of the state Republican Party. When the John Birch Society was set up in 1958 with the thesis that Eisenhower had collaborated with communism, Quayle's parents...