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I would say that it was Inouye that had
the most to do with my appointment,

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looking at it objectively.

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(Daniel W. Tuttle Jr.)
What about Jack Burns?

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At this time he was
probably close to the...

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He would have been for Burt Kobayashi,
his Attorney General at the time.

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And Wiig, I don't know who was for him.

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Wiig was not a strong man.

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(Daniel W. Tuttle Jr.)
You've given us a good indication

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that these judgeships, such as
US District Court judgeships,

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not to mention circuit courts of appeal
and so forth, not to mention

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Supreme Court judgeships, are not exactly
divorced from politics, is that correct?

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[laughter]

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It used to be said that when--
that any district judge,

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of any district judge, that if you just
scratched a vein, the blood that'd

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come out would be political.

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That was true.

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It was certainly true in Tavares' case,
and certainly true in my case.

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And I know of a heck of a lot of other
judges that this was equally true.

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On the court of appeals it's a little bit
different because you don't have one state

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You have the whole group of states.

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And you may have a Republican here
and a Democrat here

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and senators and all the rest.

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But on a district-level,
a senator from a state can kill

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any candidate for a district court job
if they want to.

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And Fong would have.

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So it happened, it happened that…