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...status quo might have stood even longer than it did, Gaddis argues, but along came Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev, all prepared to think anew. By that time, thanks to the manifest failures of the Marxist system, so were a lot of other people. More than the disposition of forces, victory in the war of ideas was crucial to ending the cold war. When the Berlin Wall finally fell, communism was so discredited that not even communists believed in it anymore...
Sitting to the right of Tribe was Charles Fried, the Beneficial professor of law at Harvard and the former solicitor general under President Reagan. While in that post, Fried briefly served as Alito’s boss. In his testimony, Fried said that he did not believe Alito would launch a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. But, he twice repeated: “I could be quite wrong...
...Reagan administration no doubt had a point of view about the law, just as did the FDR administration in 1933, or the JFK administration in 1961,” Fried said. “That is not unusual. That’s what elections are about...
...Judiciary Committee that he supposed his membership had something to do with supporting the return of ROTC to the Princeton campus, a minor item on the CAP agenda. And yet, Alito remembered his membership well enough in 1985 to boast about it when applying for a job in the Reagan Justice Department. Being part of CAP was one of his bona fides as an ideological conservative, bolstering his credentials as an opponent to affirmative action. In fact, once he'd won the job, Alito went on to work on cases intended to hold the line against affirmative action (such...
...Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) had threatened to push to subpoena the records, which are included in the papers of William A. Rusher, a former publisher of National Review and a founder of the group. Alito, a 1972 graduate, had claimed membership in CAP when he applied to the Reagan Justice Department in 1985, but now says he does not remember it and knows nothing about the group's well-known opposition to coeducation and affirmative action. Specter said his aides searched more than four boxes of files, accompanied by Kennedy's staff. "Judge Alito's name never appeared...