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PRESENTATION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Supreme Court of the United States MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1991

Present: Chief Justice Rehnquist, Justice White, Justice Blackmun, Justice Stevens, Justice O’Connor, Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, Justice Souter, and Justice Thomas.

The Chief Justice said: The Court now recognizes the Solicitor General, Mr. Kenneth Starr. Mr. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr said: Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court, I have the honor to present to the Court the seventy-seventh Attorney General of the United States, the Honorable William Pelham Barr of Virginia. The Chief Justice said: Mr. Attorney General, on behalf of the Court, I welcome you as the chief law officer of the government and as an officer of this Court. We welcome you to the performance of the very important duties which will rest upon you by virtue of your office. Your commission as Attorney General of the United States will be placed in the records of the Court and we wish you well in your new office. Attorney General William Barr said: Thank you, Mr. Chief Justice. xv