Talk:Lewis F. Powell Jr.

message: Why no mention of Powell’s secret conservative activist memo delivered to the US Chamber of Commerce shortly before his appointment to the US Supreme Court?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ServedNavyDeepSeaDiver (talk • contribs) 11:17, 24 April 2023 (UTC)

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Lewis Franklin Powell Jr. was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article ((ooops, if that is a dead link, then try this)) at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 18:43, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
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message: Failed for WP:BIO, due to insufficient inline citations - numerous unreferenced paragraphs present. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:20, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: B-class review

message: The Infobox says that his Political party was: "Democratic Party".  
That might be true, but shouldn't there be some kind of numbered "footnote" hyperlinking to a reliable, published source that 'said' so? 
Isn't this a good example of an opportunity to affix one of those little "citation needed" tags?  
I am wondering, whether it is really TRUE that his Political party was the "Democratic Party".  Maybe so... but, note that the Infobox does also say, that he was Nominated by Richard M. Nixon -- a Republican.  
So, in any event, if Powell's "Political party" really was the "Democratic Party", then there should exist some good newspaper stories, or books or magazines, (online or otherwise) that say so... or that "quote" someone as having said so [or written so].  . . . (right?) 
Just my 0.02 ... --Mike Schwartz (talk) 01:20, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed?  It says his "Political party" was: "[[Democratic Party]]"   

message: of how many people died to to his efforts to defend tobacco against surgeon general rulings?Juror1 (talk) 10:49, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  why no mention 

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message: I've removed the sections pertaining to the Powell memorandum in the lede. In addition to being largely repetitive, they constituted a third of the introduction over two paragraphs. This seems wholly disproportionate, and I have accordingly taken them out. (Furthermore, I am not sure whether a Greenpeace blog post qualifies as a reliable source, but that's another story).
Atchom (talk) 02:56, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, the Powell memo deserves its own article.  It’s the subject of numerous academic papers, books, and articles.  Second, it belongs in the lead.  Greenpeace has nothing to do with this, other than they were the first organized group to bring this topic to the public when everyone was asleep at the wheel. Viriditas (talk) 00:15, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

text: I'll see if I can find the old revision and restore something to the lede.  As I haven't seen the old lede, I can't say that the memorandum wasn't overrepresented in it, but I agree that it should at least be mentioned. 2601:648:8200:990:0:0:0:756C (talk) 19:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Powell Memorandum in Intro 

message: Article currently says
:On August 23, 1971, prior to accepting Nixon's nomination to the Supreme Court, Powell was commissioned by his neighbor Eugene B. Sydnor Jr., a close friend and education director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to write a confidential memorandum for the chamber...
But, the WLU web page about the memorandum says:
:On August 23, 1971, less than two months before he was nominated to serve as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. mailed a confidential memorandum to his friend Eugene B. Sydnor...
If Powell mailed the memorandum on August 23, 1971, it must have been begun at an earlier date.  So our article misstates the history.  Some kind of fix is needed, either an editorial one changing the description, or (preferably) addition of new info fleshing out the timeline. 2601:648:8200:990:0:0:0:756C (talk) 19:12, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of memorandum 

message: :
It's hard for me in 2023 to understand where Powell was coming from.  Why should news orgs have given credence to industry denials of medical science?  Where's the sense in this?  What am I missing? Viriditas (talk) 11:15, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trying to parse this