“Don't count out Marian Wright Edelman, because there is talk that President Clinton may want to shock the nation by putting a real black on the Supreme Court.”

—  Carl Rowan

Carl Rowan, Inside Washington (March 20, 1993).
Quoington Star article entitled "Has President Nixon Gone Crazy?"

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