NOMINATION OF WARREN E. BURGER

BEFORE THE

HEARING
U.S. Congress. Senate)

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,
UNITED STATES SENATE
NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

NOMINATION OF WARREN E. BURGER, OF VIRGINIA, TO BE

CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1969

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

JAMES O. EASTLAND, Mississippi, Chairman JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas

EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN, Illinois SAM J. ERVIN, JR., North Carolina

ROMAN L. HRUSKA, Nebraska THOMAS J. DODD, Connecticut

HIRAM L. FONG, Hawaii PHILIP A. HART, Michigan

HUGH SCOTT, Pennsylvania EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts STROM THURMOND, South Carolina BIRCH BAYH, Indiana

MARLOW W. COOK, Kentucky QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH D. TYDINGS, Maryland ROBERT C. BYRD, West Virginia

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CONTENTS

Hon. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia ------------------
Hon. William B. Spong, Jr., U.S. Senator from Virginia -----
Hon. Warren E. Burger, nominee to be Chief Justice of the United States...

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Letters.------

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Statement by Senator Gordon Allott ---

Statement of Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr., and exhibits.

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