This is not a huge problem — errors always happen — but I thought it was worth flagging. Ted Frank reports that on page 337 of Clinton’s book,
Clinton mistakenly says that Reagan nominated Scalia after the Bork nomination was rejected. “President Reagan then nominated Judge Antonin Scalia, who was as conservative as Bork, but hadn’t said and written as much to prove it.”
The problem here isn’t just the chronology — Scalia was nominated before Bork. It’s also that Scalia was widely known to be a conservative legal scholar (and a conservative federal court of appeals judge), who had written and said lots of things that showed his conservatism.
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