And this is the first time in my memory -- and I know of no other historical contrary fact -- that suggests that, when a majority of senators wanted a nomination to be heard properly, that it wasn't heard.

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My own memory of Wes Hall is, as an 11-year-old seeing my first Test match, at the Bourda Oval in Georgetown in 1965.

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