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Article: A Supreme Paper Trail.(Harry Blackmun papers)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- March 15, 2004
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Harry Blackmun must have saved every scrap of paper. At least it seemed that way last week when the Library of Congress opened some 1,585 boxes of the late Supreme Court justice's papers to the public. Included in the 530,800 items, released five years after Blackmun's death: appointment books, memos, and correspondence from his 11 years as a federal appellate judge and his nearly 24 years on the high court. The documents tell the story of a straight shooter from the Midwest who joined the court as a Nixon appointee in 1970 and retired in 1994 at the age of 85 as one of its most liberal voices.
"I remember walking into the conference room, and there were these ...