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M:
Did he call you as a commission member sort of as an informal adviser
from time to time?
H:
He was supposed to have been a great telephone user.
He may have called my predecessor as chairman, John Hannah, but I
- a position by the Nixon Administration?
R:
The answer to that is yes and no, and I'll tell you exactly why I put
Yes.
it in those terms.
I was originally approached by telephone from a
very prominent Republican in upstate New York, a lawyer who is very
- of
'37, and then Hugo Black was appointed to the Supreme Court by
Franklin Roosevelt in August 1937.
My friends here called me on
the long distance telephone to tell me I ought to come on home and
run for the Senate.
So I came home as soon as I could