Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...select group of high officials including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger who are free to make use of classified secret material in the preparation of books and to demand extraordinary sums of money for them...
...forget today that you are from Old Virginia." Powell's background as a First-Family-of-Virginia gentleman-his ancestors helped to settle Jamestown in 1607-seemed to match Nixon's desire to shift the court to a more conservative, strict-constructionist stance...
...once on the bench, Powell turned out to be far more flexible than Nixon had expected, and in fact has become one of the least predictable of the Justices. Before his nomination, Powell said in an article that Americans had little to fear from the Government's use of wiretaps against the "radical left...
Once on the court, however, he wrote a ringing decision striking down Nixon's claim that the Government did not need a court order to bug suspected domestic security risks. Similarly, Powell once approvingly told the American Bar Association that the Supreme Court seemed to be moving away from usurping the authority of the Legislative Branch. But on the bench, he voted with the majority in a decision that not only legalized abortions but set forth unusually detailed guidelines on them...
...Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Nixon...