Word: files
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Take the portrait of Warren Burger that emerges from the "eight file drawers with thousands of pages of documents" and the interviews with "more than 200 people." Burger certainly looks like a chief justice, all white hair and crags, but he is a small man, venally self-centered instead of expansive, narrow-minded instead of broad. These are traits endemic to our race, and not sins, not breaches of conduct, not even very surprising. The worst the authors catch Burger doing is bending a few of the unwritten procedural codes of the court to satisfy his slight meglamania. There...
Many have already criticized the book's documentation. Woodward, however, proved his reliability during Watergate, when a few mistakes on his part could have saved Nixon. Now he cashes in the chips, and it seem reasonable to believe that the "eight file drawers" of documents and "more than 200" sources really add up to what he reports. All the relevations are believable, even predictable, but why print them? Justice Potter Stewart said in a 1964 decision that he could not define pornography. "But I know it when I see it," his decision concludes. Since the Constitution does little to outline...