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...asked the American Bar Association to give its opinion of the fitness of Virginia Representative Richard H. Poff, despite rising complaints from civil rights groups and the threat of another Senate nomination fight by Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who led the successful opposition to Nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. But just as the A.B.A. was about to make its private recommendation to the President, Poff telephoned a Nixon aide and said that he did not wish to have his name considered for the nomination. He noted the charges of "racist" already raised against him and the probability...
...pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, the court is in need of new stature...
...Senate in 1958. He was a political enigma to most of his colleagues, on the Hill. In 1969, for instance, Prouty provided a crucial pro-Administration vote in favor of the anti-ballistic missile system, then defied the White House by opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell the following year. He also advocated a guaranteed annual income...
...strongest public stands have come in his opposition to the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court (When he organized Law deans across the country against the nomination) and last Spring when he traveled to Washington to join several other Harvard professors protesting President Nixon's invasion of Cambodia...
...Senate aide used to begin his first telephone conversation of each week with a hearty "F- J. Edgar Hoover." To the startled listener on the other end of the line, he explained: "Just clearing the lines." During the debate over G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh became so disturbed over an inexplicable strategy and information leak that he called in an expert to examine his office for listening devices. The expert "swept" Bayh's office-the same suite occupied by Richard Nixon when he was a Senator-with a detector...