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BROOKS: Not necessarily. In the 1970s, the loss of faith in government caused by Vietnam and Watergate actually ended up helping the right because Ronald Reagan came in saying, "Don't trust government." That doesn't mean it'll happen again that way, but there's an opportunity for a party to assert authority and order and say, "I'm going to end the chaos." The hunger for order in society is very strong...
...WILLIAMS V. PRICE (2003) Alito's decision overturned a lower-court ruling that denied a new hearing for Ronald Williams, a defendant convicted of first-degree murder, even after a juror was overheard making a racist remark immediately after the trial. Alito reasoned that the comment, made outside the jury room, had not been justifiably excluded from consideration by the lower court. Alito's opinion granted Williams the right to argue that his imprisonment had been unlawful...
...With his nomination of Harriet Miers, who had little experience with constitutional law, Bush went with advice that he pick someone from outside the "judicial monastery." This time, the President went with one of the high priests. As assistant to the solicitor general under President Ronald Reagan, Alito argued 12 cases before the Supremes, and has presented at least two dozen before federal courts of appeal. And while a limited paper trail was one of the Democrats' few quibbles with the record of Judge John Roberts as he was being considered for chief justice, Alito has a four-lane highway...
...terrible thing: Presidents need to be thinking past the horizon, as Jimmy Carter belatedly proved. Some of his best decisions-a strict monetary policy to combat inflation, a vigorous arms buildup against the Soviet threat-bore fruit years after he left office and were credited to his successor, Ronald Reagan. But then, Carter was among the worst recent Presidents as a Permanent Campaigner...
...fancy Washington country club by friends. Since the club didn't allow the use of cell phones, I kept running from pool to parking lot to try to reach Libby, who was traveling to Norfolk, Va., with Vice President Dick Cheney for the commissioning of the U.S.S. Ronald Reagan. Eventually I raced home without showering in order to take Libby's call. When he finally reached me at around 3 p.m., we spoke for a few minutes as I sprawled on my bed. I had no idea that that brief phone call, along with a conversation with Karl Rove...