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Reception Honors O’Connor, Others

September 24, 1981

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Type: Newspaper article
Author: United Press International
Source: The Phoenix Gazette
Collection: The Kauffman-Henry Collection
Date is approximate: No

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WASHINGTON (UPI) – President Reagan hosted a Rose Garden reception today for federal judges and the newest member of the Supreme Court, pledging to do all he can to “enhance the prestige and quality of the federal bench.” Chief Justice Warren Burger and Sandra Day O’Connor, who will be sworn in Friday as the high court’s first woman justice, were on hand for the reception. – Judge O’Connor, formerly on the • Arizona Court of Appeals bench, • was beaming as she and Reagan : strode from the Oval Office into : tbe brilliant sunlight that bathed the garden nearby. : Speaking to about 150 judges : from federal district and appellate : benches, Reagan said he was thankful for their daily reassurance “that our ideals of liberty and justice are alive and well in the United States.” The presiden t

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