Word: nixons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though the transcripts usually offer summaries and not verbatim reports of Ike's conversations (the whereabouts of the actual tapes today are unknown), they do shed fascinating light on his opinions of Nixon and the game of politics. Eisenhower pointedly omitted Nixon's name when discussing those he considered good future Republican presidential material. And in a late 1954 conversation with U.P.I. White House Correspondent Merriman Smith, Ike complained that the worst part of his job was ''accommodating yourself to values and considerations that fundamentally you can't fully accept...
Among the most persistent detractors was Richard Nixon. In his 1968 law-and-order campaign for the presidency, he accused the Supreme Court of ''weakening the peace forces in society and strengthening the criminal forces.'' If elected, he promised, he would fill Supreme Court vacancies with ''strict constructionists,'' a description generally taken to mean conservatives...
...Nixon did not have to wait long to act after his Inauguration...
Earl Warren retired, and in May 1969 Nixon chose Warren Earl Burger to replace him as Chief Justice. Burger, then 61, seemed made to order for Nixon's views...
...Burger had three more Nixon appointees as colleagues on the court: Harry A Blackmun, Lewis F. Powell Jr and William H. Rehnquist. Liberals warned of "an emerging Nixon majority"; indeed, in the early to mid-'70s, the Burger Court, with the Nixon appointees often voting as a group, began chipping away at Warren Court precedents such as Miranda and the rule excluding illegally obtained evidence. But then the bloc of Nixon appointees began to break up. In 1972-73 the quartet voted together three out of four times. By 1977-78 they were all of the same mind...