Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Announcing Kennedy's selection Wednesday, Reagan and his aides put on a show of sweet harmony. Attorney General Edwin Meese, architect of the disastrous Bork and Ginsburg nominations, and Chief of Staff Howard Baker, who had fought all along for a Kennedy-style moderate, made a point of posing ! together wreathed in grins. The President appealed for "cooperation and bipartisanship" in Kennedy's confirmation hearings and pledged to do his part. "The experience of the last several months has made all of us a bit wiser," he said. Reminded by reporters of his pledge after Bork's rejection to give...
Kennedy's case-by-case approach means that it is hard to make sweeping generalizations about how he would rule on the great legal issues facing the Supreme Court: affirmative action, Government involvement with religion, abortion and privacy rights. Says Deputy Solicitor General Donald Ayers, who argued several cases before Kennedy: "I always had the sense that he approaches each case with no predilection about who will be the winners or losers." Kozinski asserts that Kennedy sometimes is open to change even after reaching a preliminary decision. When clerks had trouble framing an opinion according to the judge's instructions...
...called the horse cavalry, to distinguish it from the armored cavalry of tanks and jeeps that replaced it, was phased out of the U.S. Army slowly, over a period of years that began in the early '40s and officially ended in 1950. But the end had begun much earlier. General George S. Patton, the most flamboyant cavalryman since Custer, had commanded tanks in World War I. And, of course, 1950 was not really the end. There were too many memories...
...earliest recollections are of horses and Army encampments. He was a small boy, he remembers, living here at Riley, when the bugler blew officers' call at lunchtime one day. His father, a young lieutenant, was on a train two hours later, heading toward Mexico to chase < Pancho Villa with General John J. Pershing's 1916 punitive expedition. "He never had time to change clothes, and we didn't see him again for a year," Polk said. "Fortunately, he had on a good pair of britches, and he still had the seat of his pants when the others had ridden theirs...
...dressage, riding tight figure-eight patterns while emptying their .45 pistols at targets. They were up at 5:30 a.m., often with pounding heads. "We were bachelors, and we did a lot of drinking," says Polk, "but with all the riding, we were healthy." Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy-legged guy, tough as an old boot." Socializing for young married officers and their wives was both formal and innocent -- tuxedos or dress blues...