Word: nixon
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...dead," Mondale noted. "It's got to be Roosevelt or Truman or Kennedy. They're even picking my old friend Humphrey; he's turning over in his grave. Why don't they leave our own heroes alone and honor their own-Hoover and Nixon and Agnew...
...Supreme Court was last a major election issue when Richard Nixon campaigned against the activist Warren Court in 1968, vowing to appoint Justices who would "interpret the Constitution strictly." Within three years, Nixon had four openings to fill, including that of Chief Justice (Warren stepped down at age 77 in 1969). Pundits proclaimed a "Nixon Court" under Burger, the new Chief Justice, and waited for a veer to the right...
...went much further than the Warren Court in others. It allowed publication of the Pentagon papers, generally upheld affirmative action, made sex discrimination unconstitutional, permitted forced busing in school-desegregation cases and, most startlingly, gave women a constitutional right to abortion. The last decision was written by Blackmun, a Nixon appointee who until then had been considered a meek, go-along conservative. As if to underscore their independence, the Justices unanimously ordered Nixon to turn over his incriminating White House tapes to the special prosecutor during Watergate...
Robert Bork, Ronald Reagan's first appointment to the D.C. Circuit, is the favorite to fill the next opening on the Supreme Court during a Reagan presidency. As Solicitor General in the Nixon Administration, Bork came to public notice for firing Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox after Attorney General Elliot Richardson resigned rather than do the deed. Bork intended to resign after firing Cox but stayed on when Richardson told him, "If you quit, there will be no Justice Department...
...like to see him do better and don't take any relish in making him look incompetent. I'm despondent these days." Peters finds Mondale an "extremely nice guy, but he's dull. I'm probably going to vote for him, but for a cartoonist Nixon or Reagan makes life a lot easier...