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Sir: I would like to nominate Chou En-lai for Man of the Year. He has led the Chinese people out of isolationism and into their rightful place as one of the great powers. He seems to have taken up conciliation with the West, especially the U.S.
"There is definite evidence that the quality of the federal judiciary has been going up," says Albert Tenner Jr., former head of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. Nixon has appointed a total of 135 people to the federal bench, and four of his...
"Martha gave me hell," admitted Attorney General John Mitchell, after President Nixon did not nominate a woman to the Supreme Court. "I sure did," chirped Martha Mitchell. "Why, I've been suffering to get a woman on the court. I'm sick and tired of women being third...
Nixon's abandoning his earlier list came as a relief even to his own Cabinet. One Cabinet officer exclaimed after the speech: "Thank God the parachute opened!" The episode was a measure of Nixon's growing sense of self-confidence. The White House staff regarded it as a triumph. "In...
Since Nixon was determined to nominate a conservative, most legal experts considered Rehnquist a good choice. "He has a very strong, logical and powerful mind," says Harvard's distinguished Professor Paul Freund, who remembers him from a class at Stanford. "He's very conservative, but I think the net result...