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The NYT notes that the judge, described as a former campaign worker for Jesse Helms and appointed to the bench by Reagan at Helms' behest, collected signatures on a petition against busing back in 1969, the year the Supreme Court ordered Charlotte to desegregate (fifteen years after Brown vs. the Board of Education ).
I must take issue with your quick dismissal of Mr. Saussy's claim that his father earned his bachelor's degree “at the behest of the Marine Corps” [XVI, 4].
By contrast, genuine enthusiasm greeted the unfolding Bruce Babbitt story, as Gigot and Bob Schieffer (CBS's Face the Nation ) both predicted that Babbitt's Supreme Court ambitions would be ruined by accusations that he had blocked a casino license for an Indian tribe at the behest of another tribe that had given money to the Democrats.
The negative American Airlines spin: We're being busted at the behest of our competitors.
Perhaps the most questionable piece of networking is one that Fowler testified he couldn't recall, but which documents revealed for the first time yesterday strongly confirm: namely, contacting the CIA at the behest of Roger Tamraz, an international financier "with a questionable reputation" (says the Times ) who was angling for Clinton administration support for a proposed Caspian region oil pipeline, and who had given the Democrats $300,000.