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Richard Nixon: “AN OUTSTANDING jurist, who would have brought great credit to the Supreme Court of the United States, has been rejected…”

On the recordNovember 20, 1969
AN OUTSTANDING jurist, who would have brought great credit to the Supreme Court of the United States, has been rejected by the United States Senate.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Statement Following the Senate Vote on the Nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., as Associate Justice of the...

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