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Article: White House readying campaign for Thomas
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1991
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WASHINGTON -- When some of the country's principal civil
rights and civil liberties groups declare their opposition this week
to Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, his
supporters will not be sitting idly by.
Instead, key members of the US Senate will receive visits from
some poor black Georgians who were Thomas' neighbors during his
boyhood. They will be here to underscore his hardscrabble origins
and plead with the senators for their votes to confirm him -- with
the visit recorded by television news crews and paid for by a
conservative lobbying group.
To blunt any impression of strong black opposition to Thomas,
his black supporters, including some dissident ...