Posted on 07/27/2005 6:05:09 AM PDT by OESY
A sliver of John G. Roberts's voluminous files from his years as a junior White House lawyer reveals a young man with a facile mind and a sharp and sometimes smart-alecky tongue.
Mr. Roberts, who joined the staff of the Reagan White House while in his late 20's, worked from 1982 to 1986 in the counsel's office there dealing with virtually every major issue that came before the administration, including civil rights, the invasion of Grenada, immigration and the separation of powers.
About 4,000 pages of his files from the White House years are available at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library here, having already been made public. The library, administered by the National Archives, is expected to make the remaining 50,000 pages public in coming weeks under an agreement between the White House and the Senate Judiciary Committee. All these are in addition to the 14,000 pages of files, released by the Archives on Tuesday, from his work as special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith in 1981-82.
The papers here show that... Mr. Roberts... noted in an aside, "Once you let the word out there's a blacklist, everybody wants to get on."
There was also the time he offered a snide analysis, in an internal White House memorandum, of a proposal from a member of the House....
Mr. Roberts also expressed mild scorn for two members of the District of Columbia City Council... [writing that a letter looks] "as if it were an awkward translation from Bulgarian."...
Mr. Roberts was asked to analyze numerous issues, though, often under very tight deadlines, and while he was a careful thinker and writer, the time pressures occasionally led to minor blots.
In a proposed response... he repeatedly misspelled Marielitos (writing "Marielitoes") and rendered the capital of Cuba three times as "Havanna."
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Misspelling is a Hoosier thang!
Chuck Schumer: "Judge Roberts, could you please spell Havana?"
Roberts: "H-a-v-a-n-n-a?"
Schumer: "I'm sorry. This man clearly has a conservative judicial philosophy and is unfit to sit on the supreme court."
The WH must be full of dopes!
How could they overlook the misspellings on his FBI background check!
Roberts is doomed!
O noe.
"This work was my own. It's much easier to spell when you're copying directly from someone else's work, Senator Biden."
Here it is, the Quayling of Roberts. When you have nothing of substance against a conservative then turn him into an idiot for "potatoe" or "Havanna"....
Totally unfit, man! Totally!
Oh nooooooooooooooooooooooo...not mispellings! :)
Good grief.
I have been known to beat up on Freepers for their atrocious spelling, but this is petty and absurd.
Good Lord, the NYT is such a disgrace...spelling errors before the era of spell check...gee whiz...what a news story...This proves Roberts is dumb---that Suma Cum Laude from Harvard notwithstanding...
What else do you expect from the same media that mocked the Roberts family for having the temerity to dress up for the most important day in Judge Roberts' professional life?
I do believe this merits a 'Typso Ping'.
;^)
Isn't Havanna in the country of Cuber?
The NYT just exposed themselves for Quayle-like ridicule by highlighting the mis-spellings. They'll be made to look (correctly) as petty partisans on at least all of the right side of the blogosphere.....if not beyond. Pundits should have fun with this.
The New York Times: doing all the heavy investigative reporting again.
Politically-charged Typsoes Ping!
Dittoe!
:o)
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