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Kleindienst pared the prospects down to 30, then, with Mitchell, reduced it to five. From that list, Nixon selected Burger and Haynsworth. Carswell and Blackmun were taken from the list of 30. In replacing Earl Warren, the President encountered no difficulty when he appointed Burger, a solid and magisterial Minnesotan. It was when he moved to fill Abe Fortas' seat with a Southern conservative that Nixon embarked on two of the nastiest fights of his presidency. Both South Carolina's Clement Haynsworth and Florida's G. Harrold Carswell were rejected by the Senate. The twin defeats infuriated Nixon...
...choice was Clark MacGregor, 48, a moderate G.O.P. Congressman who, at the President's urging, ran for the Senate this fall against Hubert Humphrey and lost. A hearty Minnesotan with Scot-red hair and a gregarious political nature, MacGregor has spent ten years in Congress, thoroughly understands its members and nuances. With a strong civil rights record, he should find a receptive audience among the Republican congressional liberals...
Without a dissenting vote or even an argument, the Senate Judiciary Committee last week approved the nomi nation of the quiet, austere Minnesotan...
...Senate's rejection of two consecutive Supreme Court nominees made most of Washington jittery about predicting how President Nixon's third choice would fare. Certainly, if only in a show of consistency, the Senators will carefully examine the credentials of last week's nominee, Minnesotan Harry A. Blackmun. Barring any disclosures of judicial misbehavior, the general approval greeting the nomination makes it all but certain that the President has finally come up with a winner...
Writers cannot shake their fascination with Eugene McCarthy, the moody Minnesotan who had the courage to challenge his party's President, then seemingly lacked the spine or energy to wage more than a languid, token campaign against Hubert Humphrey for his party's nomination. What kind of a man, they wonder, can reject frantic calls from campaign aides at key moments, first because he is watching the All-Star baseball game on television, next because he is playing softball with a group of nuns? What about his pettiness toward opponents, his long refusal to endorse Humphrey after...