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...Richard Kleindienst, who was then Deputy Attorney General, hired Dean as the Justice Department's liaison with Congress. As such, he was in charge of lobbying efforts for the ill-fated nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. His loyalty to the Administration so impressed senior White House staffers that he was hired to succeed John Ehrlichman as presidential counsel in 1970. In that job, Dean appeared to be a man of rigid principle, even when he was secretly helping to cover up Watergate. Once a junior staffer asked whether he could accept...
...when the Justices don't, the President does. Nixon's failed nominations of Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were hardly the first presidential efforts to strike a geographical balance. George Washington, Simon notes, named "to his first court three Northerners and three Southerners." Abraham Lincoln complained that Justices "trample on the rights of others"; he chose men for the high bench largely because they agreed with him. In general, Simon notes, whenever "the U.S. has faced political, social or economic crises on a broad scale, Presidents have felt a greater compulsion to control the court...
Ordeal. The congressional rebuff of Gray marked the biggest personal setback for President Nixon since the rejection of his appointments of Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. and G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court. Nixon said that Gray had been the victim of "totally unfair innuendo and suspicion," and defended both the White House's request to see the FBI files on the Watergate case ("completely proper and necessary") and Gray's compliance. But White House rationalizations notwithstanding, Congress seemed determined to diminish partisan influence in the FBI in the future...
...reputation as a friend of the Administration and a diligent worker had been established. Richard Kleindienst, then Deputy Attorney General, hired him as the legislative liaison for the Justice Department because "everybody in town recommended him." Dean was in charge of lobbying for the Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. Just before the Senate rejected the Carswell nomination, a frustrated Dean remarked to a colleague: "If we don't win this one, I might as well hang...
...problem of quotas is one of application: numerical goals or targets can all too easily escalate into quotas, and competition among groups for quota allotment could reach dangerously divisive-or absurd-levels. During the debate over the nomination of G. Harrold Carswell to the Supreme Court, it was Senator Roman Hruska who suggested that since there are so many mediocre Americans, mediocrity deserves representation on the highest bench. That doubtless is the reductlo ad absurdum of the quota argument...