Richard Nixon actually said...

I HAVE reluctantly concluded--with the Senate as presently constituted--I cannot successfully nominate to the Supreme Court any Federal appellate judge from the South who believes as I do in the strict construction of the Constitution.

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Statement About Nominations to the Supreme Court

04/08/1970

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