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Judge O’Connor

July 20, 1981

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Type: Letter to the editor
Author: Charles R. La Dow
Source: The San Diego Union
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No

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Five years ago I heard the commencement address made by Judge Sandra Day O’Connor at the Orme School, in Arizona. When someone told me that an Arizona woman had been nominated to the Supreme Court vacancy, I felt quite sure that it must be she. When the news confirmed my judgment, a lump of patriotism rose in my throat. It isn’t often that one feels secure in judging anyone, least of all a judge, by one meeting. Judge O’Connor is an exception to that need for prudence. She exudes competence and integrity a degree impossible to fake. She radiates simple, uncomplicated honesty, while, at the same time, exhibiting all of the sophistication necessary in dealing with political sophistry. In my view, nothing in the Reagan administration’s actions is more significant than this appointment which should do more to cool off government by faction than any certain other move which can be imagined. One is tempted to predict that she will disarm even the liberals.

CHARLES R. LA DOW San Diego

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