Scandal to rival 'Contra' affair: Roberts encouraged Reagan to bribe Girl Scout
In a positively breathless article in the Washington Post titled "Roberts Resisted Women's Rights", a team of reporters scouring the most recent document dump from the White House concerning the Roberts nomination uncovered scandalous evidence that Roberts has a sense of humor.
Among the memos the White House clearly hoped the press wouldn't find was this shocking legal opinion:
In a memo to (White House counsel Fred) Fielding dated May 7, 1985, Roberts addressed the ethics of allowing a Falls Church Girl Scout to meet the president in the midst of the annual cookie drive. "Elizabeth . . . has sold some 10,000 boxes and would like to sell one to the President. The little huckster thinks the President would like the Samoas," he wrote, before concluding that he had no objection to deviating in this case from the White House's practice of avoiding "an implied endorsement" by the president.I say confirm him - without delay.
