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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least ten or 15 years on the Supreme Court bench. His decisions have been moderate to conservative on civil rights, and occasionally liberal in cases involving the rights of criminals. But above all, Haynsworth is a strict constructionist who subscribes to Nixon's dictum that "it is the job of the courts to interpret the law, not make the law." A desire for social innovation has seldom manifested itself in his legal judgments, and he seems an apt choice to carry out what Nixon envisions as a redefinition of the Supreme Court's role, steering it away from...
Last week Laird, who in public invariably gives the relaxed impression that his hair shirt must have a silk lining, was hard at work at his job while most of Washington was on holiday. Conforming to the President's marching orders for the attack on inflation and to the realities of congressional skepticism, he announced new military-budget cutbacks that will eventually amount to $3 billion. The measures were an artful melange of reductions already taken and some for the future, and he accompanied them with the warning that they would cause an "inevitable weakening of our worldwide military posture...
Although he is not registered with either political party now, Haynsworth listed himself as a Democrat until 1957. He supported Dwight Eisenhower in 1956. Haynsworth has never run for office himself, prefers to work for "the man I feel is best qualified for the job." His legal prose reflects the cadences of his life: measured, sedate and pellucid. His friends say that his facility with the written word is in part purposeful compensation for his tendency to stutter...
...would anyone want Laird's job? Laird certainly did not. In fact, he asserts with feeling that he "wanted no part" of it; he accepted, loyal partisan that he is, only because Nixon had run out of alternative candidates. Politics, particularly the politics of the House of Representatives, where he has served from Wisconsin since 1953, is Laird's passion. He is good at the craft. His ready informality, which encourages even the Joint Chiefs of Staff and other senior men at the Pentagon to call their boss "Mel," fits the vocation. So do his competitiveness in debate...
Quintana, 49, started ICA 22 years ago with shoestring capital of $8,000 and the cooperation of 16 fellow engineers aged 23 to 28. He staked the firm's future on a public-housing project and completed the job ahead of schedule. He thus began a close association with the government, which remains ICA's best customer...