Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to leave a "reputation as a judge who understood constitutional governance." There was one moment, however, when the strain seemed to affect him. After Senator Leahy took the judge to task for never doing pro bono work during his years as an attorney, Republican Gordon Humphrey retorted that Bork had given up an extremely lucrative private practice to pursue teaching and Government service. Leahy then noted that as a professor Bork had earned some $200,000 a year in consulting fees between 1979 and 1981. "Those were the only years I made money," said Bork. "There was a reason...
Leahy said he understood the reasons, but Humphrey persisted, asking Bork if his consulting work "coincided with heavy medical bills in your family." Visibly moved, Bork rested his chin in his hand and quietly replied, "Yeah." Chairman Biden quickly declared that it was time to take a break. It was in 1980 that Bork's first wife, Claire, lost a ten-year battle with cancer...
...probably noticed that he performed competently, but far from memorably, at the Bork hearings. But what most voters are more likely to remember was the endless TV sequences of Biden's words on the campaign trail juxtaposed with almost identical oratory coming from the mouth of Robert Kennedy, Hubert Humphrey and British Labor Party Leader Neil Kinnock. English teachers in New Hampshire high schools were soon using Biden as the bad example in lessons on the evils of plagiarism...
...four children, denies any racism or cultural bias. "I'm defending Western culture, not white culture," he claims. "I'm not anti-anything. What I am pushing is a value system that develops economic prosperity and political freedom." A former speechwriter for Lyndon Johnson and campaign adviser to Hubert Humphrey, Wattenberg describes himself as a centrist Democrat who supports liberal immigration policies. Nevertheless, his maverick views have won him a reputation as the conservatives' favorite liberal...
...partial scholarship to Harvard and was admitted to the Minnesota bar in 1932. Although a Republican, he backed Hubert H. Humphrey's campaigns. Humphrey later backed him for a seat on the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which he held for 11 years...