Word: souter
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Whenever they choose candidates for the Supreme Court, Presidents must decide whether to select known quantities whose votes they believe they can reliably predict or to go with gifted independents, putting faith in their judgment if not their loyalty. Americans will learn which category Souter fits into only if they see his rulings on the court. For that matter, Souter himself may not know until then...
...President's experience in foreign affairs. He managed to finesse most challenges at home. But the domestic agenda could not be deflected forever, and now he faces a series of divisive concerns, including a new civil rights bill, tax increases and growing fear of recession. The selection of David Souter, while tactically adroit, underscored Bush's need to move cautiously across a domestic playing field that suddenly looks less dismal to Democrats eyeing 1992. The shift results mainly from the government's failure to contain the mounting deficit (estimated at $169 billion for fiscal 1991), which forced Bush to flee...
...most days Washington is far better at dismantling people and purposes than it is at building them up. So it should have been no surprise that at the close of David Souter week, the city seemed on the way to the ultimate absurdity: criticizing the Supreme Court nominee because there was not much about him to criticize...
...fire storm of babble that followed Souter's nomination was larger than even the White House scouts had predicted, yet it seemed to singe everybody but the nominee. His handlers stashed the gray-suited Souter in the shadowy Room 468 of the Old Executive Office Building, then trotted him around the Senate for get-acquainted handshakes and dined him in the White House mess, both stern tests of his stomach...
...cleanup crew that followed in Souter's wake to glean cloakroom prattle heard him compared to Calvin Coolidge and called a "mousy little guy." Bush can live with that. Souter is a Harvard-Phi Beta Kappa-Rhodes scholar mouse...