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...rekindled. "This is the best thing that could happen at the present time," says George Strichman, chairman of Colt Industries, a huge conglomerate. "There will be a mood of release, a feeling of Thank God, let's get going.' " Charles W. Moore, research director of William C. Roney & Co., a Michigan brokerage house, adds, "Any change has to be an improvement over the present...
...indeed, Nixon has named only three blacks to district courts. Lyndon Johnson chose nine for district benches and higher judicial posts, while John Kennedy selected three. Of Nixon's four Southern nominees to the Fifth Circuit, two have been at least average-Charles Clark of Mississippi and Paul Roney of Florida -but the others were G. Harrold Carswell and Ingraham. Still, that record is a bit better than John Kennedy's. One J.F.K. appointment to a district court in Mississippi was William Harold Cox, a college roommate of Senator Eastland's who had addressed blacks from...
...Congressman, who had said that his life's ambition was to sit on the Supreme Court, abruptly withdrew his name from consideration, unwilling to subject himself to the investigation and debate that he knew would follow. Mitchell then came up with Charles Clark of Mississippi and Paul Roney of Florida, both of whom Nixon had appointed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Roney is a Republican lawyer with no prior judicial experience. Clark, a Mississippi lawyer, likewise had no earlier experience on the bench. Another Mitchell suggestion was Herschel Friday, a prominent Little Rock attorney who for 14 years...
...PAUL H. RONEY, 50. Appointed by Nixon to fill G. Harrold Carswell's seat on the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Florida, Roney has not served as a judge long enough to establish a reputation. A former member of the board of governors of the Florida Bar Association, he had no prior judicial experience. Still, he does not seem to have Carswell-style racist skeletons in his closet. At the time of his appointment, according to a Florida civil rights worker, "we did everything we could to find something on the man, and we couldn't come...
Musick feels his team is vulnerable to the pass and he is concerned that Massey will exploit this weakness with passes, mainly to Rich Maher and Lew Roney...