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...former clerks, the bright young law school graduates who serve as the Justices' aides. Little, apparently, came from the several Justices with whom Woodward and Armstrong talked. Even so, the critics note, the narrative is stippled with much detail about the Justices' inner motives and feelings: Potter Stewart's stomach is said to "knot" before a meeting with President Nixon; William Brennan "felt betrayed" at one point; Burger, who never spoke to the authors, "vowed to himself that he would grasp the reins of power immediately." Complains University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a longtime court...
...part could have saved Nixon. Now he cashes in the chips, and it seem reasonable to believe that the "eight file drawers" of documents and "more than 200" sources really add up to what he reports. All the relevations are believable, even predictable, but why print them? Justice Potter Stewart said in a 1964 decision that he could not define pornography. "But I know it when I see it," his decision concludes. Since the Constitution does little to outline how much flesh is protected by the first amendment, and since the Court history on the issue has been a hodge...
...Potter; 323 pages...
...comparisons that follow are likely to be odious. Susan Cheever, 36, accepts this mixed blessing with considerable panache. She never pretends to write like her old man, John, the sage of Ossining, but she alludes regularly and playfully to his imposing presence. When her heroine, Salley Gardens (nee Potter), gets married, one of the wedding guests is J.C. Salley's father, a Columbia University professor, commits an unacknowledged theft from a Cheever short story when commenting on his older brother: "What can you do with a man like that?" Even an apparently innocent comment by Salley carries, given...
...done this, I'd fire him." Fickle and unprincipled, the authors claim, Burger is a jurist who can write, a very liberal opinion on race discrimination, just so that his critics cannot easily pigeonhole him as a conservative. He is certainly no leader. "On ocean liners," Justice Potter Stewart reportedly told clerks at one point, "they used to have two captains. One for show, to take the women to dinner. The other to pilot the ship safely. The chief is the show captain. All we need now is a real captain...