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Since his 1975 swearing-in as the 101st man to serve as a Justice, Stevens has brought a fresh approach to his work. On a court noted for its fragmentation and diversity, Stevens is the extreme case, a personal loner and a legal maverick. Yet he has won the respect of the other Justices for his originality and ability to find new angles on old ideas (he once casually asked a clerk to "rethink" the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause). Says one of his colleagues: "If there is any conceivable...
...persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late bloomer, just like you, Dad.' I was a loner, having fun. It was a while before I found a direction...
...pettiness that surfaces from time to time. A kind of us-and-them feeling that does not surface much but I think is there. I think that's endemic to anyone in the White House, but it's especially so for Jimmy Carter, coming in as the outsider, the loner, not conversant with the salons of power, coming in and running against everybody. Carter, too, seems unable to use politics for what it should be used for. The art of the politician, the public educator, whatever we call leadership, I think it's that--I hate the word "leadership," because...
...current political turmoil there is emerging something that seems like a rebuke from the voters to the professional handlers of candidates. The emergence of Loner John Anderson, the firing of Reagan Manager John Sears, the general pruning and realignment of other staffs suggest an effort by candidates to regain some control of themselves in response to mounting skepticism from the folks out there...