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Let me be quite candid. There were those, good friends of mine, who came to me a few weeks ago suggesting I withdraw Judge Haynsworth's nomination due to the fact that a doubt had been raised and that politically it was going to be very difficult to wield.

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Remarks at an Informal Meeting With Members of the White House Press Corps on Judge Haynsworth's Nomination to the...

10/19/1969

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