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Despite protests from black leaders, it seems likely that the Senate will confirm Carswell, even granting his white-supremacy remarks of more than two decades ago. No one wants another Haynsworthian donnybrook, and much has changed-not least the attitudes of millions of other Americans about race -in America since 1948. Carswell wants to forget his past, just as many liberals have pleaded for their unreasoned remarks about Communism some 20 years ago to be forgotten. Republican Leader Hugh Scott seemed to sum up the Senate's attitude when he observed: "A wise man changes his mind often...
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