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- <text id=93TT1494>
- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: To Be Or Not To Be . . . A Supreme
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- NATION
- To Be Or Not To Be...A Supreme
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> New York Governor Mario Cuomo seems to delight in playing
- games of semantics with the press--with particular relish when
- the subject is talk of his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- The answer, it seems, is no. But getting there was more than half
- the fun. Some excerpts from his protracted soliloquy:
- </p>
- <p> 11/17/92:
- </p>
- <p> "If an offer were made, I would answer the question so
- swiftly that every one of you in the media would write, `This,
- surely, is the most decisive man in America.'"
- </p>
- <p> 3/12/93:
- </p>
- <p> "You know what a judge does? You wear a robe. You don't
- have to have a cocktail party. You never have to give a speech.
- All you have to do is listen, study and write."
- </p>
- <p> 4/7/93
- </p>
- <p> (from a letter to President Clinton):
- </p>
- <p> "I do not wish to be considered."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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