Burger was appointed by President [[Richard Nixon]] in 1969 to replace [[Earl Warren]] as Chief Justice to the [[United States Supreme Court]]. He was a strong advocate of "strict constructionism", a philosophy whereby one attempts to base one's decisions upon the literal text of the [[Constitution]]. Burger identified with the Court's [[conservative]] wing and frequently voted to limit the [[liberal]] decisions of the Warren period. Burger was not one-dimensional, however. He authored the Court's opinion upholding the right of trial judges to order busing as a remedy for school [[segregation]] and he spoke for a unanimous Court upholding a subpeona for the [[Watergate]] tapes which resulted in President Nixon's resignation.
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