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...EISENhOWER 9, STEvENSON...
...EISENhOWER 9, STEvENSON...
...same time Nixon, who once proclaimed so emphatically that it was time "to turn Watergate over to the courts," had short-circuited any such course. As Democratic Senator Adlai E. Stevenson aptly summed up the sorry situation last week: "By denying the special prosecutor access to the White House tapes, Mr. Nixon gives the American people no reason for confidence that they will ever know the whole truth about Watergate. By his disdain for the orderly processes of the law, he gives us no reason to believe that justice will be done." The Nixon argument that the real issues were...
...tapes will not derive primarily from the political leanings of the nine judges, to be sure. But it is worth noting that in addition to Bazelon and Wright, the court has three members who can be ranked as somewhat left of center: Carl McGowan, 62, who served as Adlai Stevenson's counsel while Stevenson was Governor of Illinois; Harold Leventhal, 58, onetime general counsel to the Democratic National Committee; and Spottswood W. Robinson III, 57, former dean of the Howard University Law School and the only black member of the court...
...Stevenson (8) had a power-packed name, but it wasn't good enough to match Eisenhower (9), in '52 and '56. Kennedy (5) defeated Nixon (4) in 1960, Johnson (6) beat Goldwater (5) in '64, and Humphrey (3) lost to Nixon...