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There will, of course, be all those delicious small perks that go with power: fresh flowers, current color photographs on the walls, embossed memo pads, napkins, playing cards, cigarette packages and matches with the presidential seal and inscriptions like "Aboard Air Force One." The new plane will be hardened against electromagnetic pulse from a nuclear explosion. When it lands at a distant airport, it can become a complete communications hub for the presidential party...
Vorenberg said in the memo that he now wants to provide further discussion of the plans for the faculty law review and give the project more time...
...clerk in 1952, Rehnquist wrote a memo for Justice Jackson stating that "separate but equal" public education for blacks was "right and should be reaffirmed." Questioned about this at his confirmation hearings in 1971, Rehnquist insisted that he was expressing the Justice's views, not his own. But University of Chicago Law School Professor Dennis Hutchinson, who is writing a biography of Jackson, calls Rehnquist's explanation "absurd." Jackson always instructed his clerks to express their own views, not his, says Hutchinson. Last year Rehnquist stated that he now believes that the Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision Brown...
While the search for a fix proceeded, Bob Ebeling, manager of the booster- ignition system at Morton Thiokol, wrote a plaintive interoffice memo on Oct. 1, 1985, saying, "HELP! The seal task force is constantly being delayed by every possible means . . . The allegiance to the O-ring investigation task force is very limited to a group of engineers numbering 8-10 . . . We wish we could get action by verbal request, but such is not the case. This is a red flag...
...another bizarre twist in NASA's paper shuffle. The Marshall managers grew tired of dealing with so many open problems listed for the shuttle that they asked Morton Thiokol to try to winnow the items. Brian Russell, Thiokol's manager of special projects for the boosters, promptly filed a memo last Dec. 6 to the director of the solid-rocket project at Thiokol, recommending that the O-ring erosion be dropped from the critical- problems list. Mysteriously, an unsigned paper produced by Marshall's problem- assessment system declared that "this problem is considered closed" on Jan. 23, just five days...