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...Blackmun is confirmed, it will be due mainly to his merits, rather than any lessons the Administration has learned in how to put a nominee across. Once again, the selection was almost solely the work of the President and his battered adviser, Attorney General John Mitchell. Nixon and Mitchell did not consult Senators or the American Bar Association in advance, although the selection was announced to a few key Senators shortly before the press was informed. But this time Nixon personally met the nominee and chatted with him for 45 minutes before deciding on him. Despite widespread criticism...
...nominees he would name men whose credentials were beyond challenge. He also declared that he would never use his appointment power to achieve a racial, religious or geographical balance on the court. He later not only abandoned that in favor of a sectional approach, but narrowed his criteria to select two men who appealed mainly to conservative whites...
Each year Salgo-Noren designates several institutions to present the award to members of their faculties, but this is the first year the Business School has participated. Next year the foundation will select a professor from the second-year program...
...graceful, spacious mansion stands imposingly just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in the select neighborhood of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It bears a most impressive title: The Library of Presidential Papers. Yet it is a library without a librarian. About the only original presidential document there is a John F. Kennedy letter valued at $175 and apparently signed by his secretary. The building also boasts a presidential bedroom in which no President has ever slept or seems likely even to visit. The organization's letterhead carries a seal so similar to that of the President...
...besides limiting the lawyers' rights to peremptory challenges, might yield only one black per jury, plus absurd demands that juries precisely reflect all other groups-Jews, Chinese, Indians, Catholics and so on. Some reformers urge another method: racial quotas. They might be held unconstitutional if applied to jury selection, and almost certainly would be unwise. White jury commissioners could still control the system, and perhaps select only compliant or ultraconservative blacks. They might be harsher on black defendants than white jurors would...