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Last week Kleindienst overruled Gray, insisting that the FBI's Watergate files would be open only to the Judiciary Committee Chairman, Mississippi Democrat James Eastland, and the committee's ranking Republican, Nebraska's Roman Hruska. When Kleindienst ordered Gray not to answer any more questions about Watergate, Gray was forced into the humiliating position of refusing to respond to the Senators. "I respectfully decline to answer that question," he would say, his bass voice sometimes quavering as he sounded uncomfortably like someone taking the Fifth Amendment...
...lineup last week: For Gray?Republicans Marlow Cook, Hiram Fong, Edward Gurney, Roman Hruska, Hugh Scott, Strom Thurmond and Democrat James Eastland. Against Gray?Democrats Birch Bayh, Quentin Burdick, Robert Byrd, Sam Ervin, Philip Hart, Edward Kennedy and John Tunney. Undecided?Republican Charles Mathias and Democrat John McClelland...
...quotas is one of application: numerical goals or targets can all too easily escalate into quotas, and competition among groups for quota allotment could reach dangerously divisive-or absurd-levels. During the debate over the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, it was Senator Roman Hruska who suggested that since there are so many mediocre Americans, mediocrity deserves representation on the highest bench. That doubtless is the reductlo ad absurdum of the quota argument...
...charges and the press coverage of the ITT case. Most dramatically, ITT Lobbyist Dita Beard, from the Denver hospital where she is said to be suffering from severe angina pectoris, issued a statement disavowing her now famous memo as a forgery, "a false and salacious document." Nebraska Senator Roman Hruska damned the hearings as "this smear-a-day campaign" brought on "because of a spurious document dredged up by the Louella Parsons of the political world...
Garrett Epps' "Parting Shot" paean to the virtues of the C student and his expose of the moral turpitude and inhumanity of A students, warmed my anti-intellectual heart. It resurrected for me the treasured sage counsel of Sen. Roman Hruska, on the occasion of President Nixon's nomination of Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court, that we need more mediocre men in positions of power...