Word: haynsworth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate barber shop is putting in some extra chairs in anticipation of a huge increase in business. Surely, after what some Senators did to Judge Haynsworth, they won't be able to ever look in the mirror again...
...rejection of Clement Haynsworth [Nov. 28] clearly shows that Congress has gotten the message: while the election of Nixon indicated great disenchantment with Lyndon Johnson, it was not the public mandate for ultraconservatism and political patronage that the Nixon-Agnew forces claim...
...there a single member of either House who could have stood up to the scrutiny of his personal affairs and come out with as whole a skin as Judge Haynsworth? The height of hypocrisy was the no vote of Senator Dodd of Connecticut, a man whose financial dealings should have ousted him from the Senate...
Mollenhoff Cocktail. Some of Nixon's men are emerging at last as fairly colorful in their business hours as well. White House Aide Clark Mollenhoff's attack on opponents of Judge Clement Haynsworth on a Washington television program was so vehement that it caused one of the participants to threaten a libel action. Mollenhoff's repeated fulminations led to a Washington jape about the "Mollenhoff Cocktail-you throw it and it backfires." Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, an old Goldwater operative, sits up front on the Nixonian stage, riding shotgun for John Mitchell on the Moratorium marchers...
Federal District Court Judge Homer Thornberry was one man who profoundly sympathized with Judge Clement Haynsworth after the Senate rejected the South Carolinian for the Supreme Court. In a sense, Thornberry had been there himself. Lyndon Johnson nominated him to replace Justice Abe Fortas on the theory that Fortas would be moving up to Chief Justice on Earl Warren's retirement. Thornberry is depressed by Haynsworth's rejection. "Haynsworth was unacceptable because he is a conservative Southerner," Thornberry tells friends in Texas, "not because he's unethical." Then he adds: "The fight is gone from the Senate...