In article 77yuc.21588$js4.11193@attbi_s51, Mike Dargan
wrote:


Oddly, despite my disparaging comments about Nixon, his record on civil
rights and the environment was quite good. He appointed quite a few
minorities and women and had much to do with the EPA and OSHA. He
started out with a couple of Supreme Court nominations that were
clinkers (Haynesworth and Carswell!) but then gave us the core of the
Burger Court which turned out surprisingly well.

At least Carswell led to one of the truly wondrous statements by a
senator, Roman Hruska: "There are a lot of mediocre people in this
country. Don't they deserve representation too?"