 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt - 1992 - 326 pages
...me answer this question with a bluntness that will end all honest misunderstanding of my purposes. If by that phrase "packing the Court" it is charged...that no president fit for his office would appoint, and no Senate of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that kind of appointees to the Supreme... | |
 | Gordon Lloyd - 2006 - 420 pages
...me answer this question with a bluntness that will end all honest misunderstanding of my purposes. If by that phrase "packing the Court" it is charged...that no President fit for his office would appoint, and no Senate of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that kind of appointees to the Supreme... | |
 | Richard Panchyk - 2007 - 208 pages
...support. He defended his plan in one of his Fireside Chat radio addresses to the American people in 1937: If by that phrase "packing the Court" it is charged...that no President fit for his office would appoint, and no Senate of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that kind of appointees to the Supreme... | |
 | Kermit L. Hall, John J. Patrick - 2006 - 253 pages
...me answer this question with a bluntness that will end all honest misunderstanding of my purposes. If by that phrase "packing the Court" it is charged...decided, I make this answer — that no President fit for this office would appoint, and no Senate of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that... | |
 | William Safire - 2008 - 862 pages
...he found himself on the defensive . "If by that phrase 'packing the Court' it is charged," he said, "that I wish to place on the bench spineless puppets...that no President fit for his office would appoint, and no Senate of honorable men fit for their office would confirm, that kind of appointee to the Supreme... | |
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packing the Court" it is charged that I wish to place on the bench spineless puppets who would disregard the law and would decide specific cases as I wished them to be decided, I make this answer: That no President fit for his office would appoint, and... 