Word: griffin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Complaints that Carter had few new faces in his Cabinet were dying down, but he was still being criticized for naming Griffin Bell as his Attorney General. Carter claimed that the Atlanta lawyer and former federal judge was being unfairly attacked for belonging to restricted clubs...
Some view the consideration of McCree, who is black, as a move by Carter to placate liberal and minority criticism of Attorney General designate Griffin Bell. Bell's membership in white-restricted clubs drew protests from civil rights advocates...
According to Tom Atkins, head of the Boston NAACP and a longtime observer and participant in Boston politics, black voters have supplied White's winning margin in his three mayoral races. In return, Atkins claims, White has given blacks nothing more than "Griffin Bells...
...final lineup was the result of tough infighting among competing interests, and fancy-even tricky-maneuvering on Carter's part. The most egregious example was his appointment as Attorney General: Griffin Bell, a former federal appeals-court judge. Black leaders were outraged at the choice (see box opposite page...
...accounts, Jimmy Carter knew there would be some hot reaction to his nomination of an old Georgia chum and political confidant, former Federal Judge Griffin Bell, as Attorney General. The transition team at the Justice Department had sent a memo to Plains warning of a storm of protests. They were right-and the storm went beyond black leaders' upset about Bell's mixed record on civil rights during his 14 years on the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Editorial outrage ran the political gamut. The New York Times's James Reston blasted the nomination...