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Article: Roberts as young White House lawyer showed his conservative stripes, took shots at Supreme Court justices
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- August 19, 2005
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JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
08-19-2005
Dateline: WASHINGTON
As a young White House lawyer, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts cautioned against allowing President Ronald Reagan to say the United States was "the greatest nation God ever created," saying he feared it would lead to political ridicule.
In an Oct. 11 1984 memo, Roberts wrote that according to the Biblical book of Genesis, "God creates things like the heavens and the earth, and the birds and the fishes, but not nations."
"...The phrase strikes me as ill-advised and, particularly in light of the focus on the religion and politics issue, a likely candidate for the `Reaganism of the Week," he wrote White ...