In this letter, Reagan shows support for Bork, disdain at the suggestion his administration used the word 'moderate', and references Senator Joe Biden.
To: new yorker 77
Note - dem controlled Senate and still there were 42 votes for Bork. Quite a contrast compared to current times.
To: new yorker 77; eyespysomething
I’ll come back with a nominee as much like him as I can get.
And that was that pot-head Douglas Ginsburg. We'll never know if he was "as much like (Bork) as I can get)." We ended up with Anthony Kennedy and a new verb.
3 posted on
01/03/2006 2:37:45 PM PST by
SittinYonder
(That's how I saw it, and see it still.)
To: new yorker 77
That the administration didn't fight harder for Bork is a shame.
4 posted on
01/03/2006 2:37:57 PM PST by
TBP
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