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    <title>Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit. Oral History Project oral history interviews, 1991-2004</title>
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    <namePart>Oral History Project.</namePart>
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  <abstract>Transcripts of oral history interviews documenting the history of the circuit, containing biographical information and discussions of the judicial process, history of the circuit, evolution of significant cases, and the role of law clerks.  Includes interviews with judges, judges' spouses, lawyers, and court staff associated with the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia.  Interviewees include Robert S. Bennett, Robert H. Bork, James Lane Buckley, Lloyd N. Cutler, Samuel Dash, Gerhard Alden Gesell, David Ginsburg, Erwin N. Griswold, Harold H. Greene, Abner J. Mikva, E. Barrett Prettyman, Joseph L. Rauh, Patricia M. Wald, Paul C. Warnke, and Helen Patton Wright.  Each transcript is supplemented by an index.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>The Oral History Project of the Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit was created in 1991 to preserve the recollections of the judges who sat on the U.S. courts of the District of Columbia Circuit, and judges' spouses, lawyers, and court staff.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bennett, Robert S</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bork, Robert H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Buckley, James Lane</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1923-</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Cutler, Lloyd N</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dash, Samuel</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Gesell, Gerhard Alden</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1910-1993</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ginsburg, David</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1912-2010</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Griswold, Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1904-1994</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greene, Harold H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mikva, Abner J</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Prettyman, E. Barrett (Elijah Barrett)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1925-</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rauh, Joseph L</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1911-</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wald, Patricia M</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Warnke, Paul C</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1920-</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright, Helen Patton</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1919-</namePart>
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    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Circuit Court (District of Columbia)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Circuit courts</topic>
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Judges</topic>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <topic>Judges' spouses</topic>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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    <topic>Judicial process</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Law clerks</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Lawyers</topic>
    <topic>Interviews</topic>
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