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...President Clinton began to cry last week after introducing his Supreme Court nominee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and hearing her speak abouut her mother. It wasn't the first time...
Before the President could nominate Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, she had to be vetted by his staff. TIME obtained the questionaire the Administration had used before in the vetting process; it consists of 65 exhaustive, multi-part questions about family, health, taxes and finances going back decades, including the following...
Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers plunked herself down in David Gergen's basement office in the West Wing last Monday night and laid out her problem. Just hours before, Clinton had named Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the Supreme Court, but then abruptly ended a press conference when Brit Hume of ABC News nettled the President with a question about his tortured selection process. Myers told Gergen that she expected the morning to bring good economic news, and was looking for a way to capitalize on that story and make the Rose Garden incident history. Gergen, who served as communications director...
President Bill Clinton's fortunes improved last week. A number of his legislative initiatives made some progress through Congress, and he finally named his candidate for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by Byron White. A quick Senate confirmation was expected for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a judge on the federal appeals court in Washington and a pioneering feminist lawyer. Ginsburg was praised by both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans, though some women's groups were nervously reviewing her position that the Roe v. Wade abortion-rights ruling was the right decision but based on the wrong grounds. Only two days...
...Ruth Bader Ginsburg was about to graduate from Columbia Law School, where she had transferred after two years at Harvard to be with her husband Martin. She had been an oddity at Harvard, one of only nine women law students in her class. She remembers wanting to drop through a trapdoor when the dean at Harvard asked her to justify taking up the place where a man could be. Still, she was surprised when being on law review at both Harvard and Columbia and first in her class at Columbia did not make her a sought-after hire. She remembers...