Although fitness is, of course, the primary requisite for selection to the Supreme Court, it is interesting to note that that particular circuit has not been represented in the Court for 70 years.
Herbert Hoover: “Although fitness is, of course, the primary requisite for selection to the Supreme Court, it is interesting to note that…”
On the recordMarch 20, 1930
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