Strange Justice

“Now, if you want a tremendously detailed look at how the confirmation process went or precisely why Thomas was picked, all of that stuff, I really do recommend the book Strange Justice by Meer and Abramson.”

“And I'm going to quote from Strange Justice again. Thomas began to ask her out socially 3 to 5 months after she began working for him in July 1981. According to Hill, his approach was unusual.”

“And here's Meer and Abramson and Abramson again. Quote, "One of the oddest of Hill's recollections was that one day when she and Thomas were working in his office, he got up from the table where he had been sitting with her, went over to his desk to retrieve a can of Coca-Cola, and after staring at it, demanded to”

“And I'm going to quote from Strange Justice here because this is a fun little side story. Miles Lamp was, if anything, more conservative than Thomas. Her father, her family, well-connected and wellto-do, had provided the backbone of Goldwater support in Nebraska.”

“Mayer and Abramson write in the book Strange Justice, quote, "Terrel H. Bell, who was Secretary of Education at the time, called in his memoirs being shocked at the sick humor and racist clichés voiced by some Reagan appointees"”

“that's where this subsequent scene which is related in Strange Justice comes in and I'm going to read you a a quote.”

“And I'm going to quote again from Strange Justice. According to Sam Williams, Thomas's lack of gratitude for what his grandfather and the Civil Rights Movement had done for him formed the beginning of an estrangement”

“As this quote from the book, Strange Justice makes clear. Clarence Martin, who visited Thomas in Missouri, found the transformation in his formerly liberal friend, with whom he had worked only the summer before, to be quite remarkable.”

“And I'm going to quote now from Strange Justice. While Thomas argued against premarital sex and adultery, telling one friend that he would leave a wife on the spot if she was unfaithful to him, he also showed an unusual interest in talking about sex”

“And again, this is a lot of this comes from the book Strange Justice by Jane Mayer and I think Jill Abramson is her name. Um, two reporters. Jane we've talked about a lot.”

“The book Strange Justice covers a fateful interview that he had with a reporter from the Washington Post. Quote, "It was in this interview that Thomas first publicly denounced his sister's reliance on public assistance."”

“Jane Mayer and J Jill Abrams, authors of the book Strange Justice, quote, "He starts out as a little black boy, not accepted in the black world. He has no money, no family."”

“Now, I'm going to quote again from Strange Justice to talk about how Clarence would later relate what he said had happened. Quote, "Thomas's recollection of how Myers Anderson came to intercede is somewhat different.”

“Um, and the book Strange Justice goes into even more detail. Quote, "So Thomas and his brother were made to rise before dawn and help their grandfather deliver coal and oil and spent their holidays and weekends doing heavy farm work for him.”

“Um, as the book Strange Justice makes clear, a good deal of his opportunity here came as a result of the successes of the civil rights movement. Right? It's not just his grandfather's success.”

“from strange justice quote if Thomas was unsophisticated about girls certainly the nuns had done little to change that the only sex education the youngsters at St. Benedict and St. Pisx received recalled Johnson was from their own parents which Thomas lacked.”