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Dimmick: Who wrote the article? Hughes: Mary Elizabeth Nicholas. I didn’t know Mary Elizabeth, but I won’t make fun of her because she’s writing in her genre and in her era. And I sure wrote a lot worse stuff than that. She asks, “What do her children think of her being a judge?” “I don’t think they have any real conception of just what the job is,” you reply. My little boy has seen ‘Laughin’ a couple of times, so he does give me a ‘Here comes the judge’ now and then.” Is that true? Dimmick: Uh-huh. Hughes: “Away from the office and court it is Mrs. Dimmick who enjoys interior decorating and antiquing. ‘Junk-tiquing’ really,” she says, “just old furniture. I like to refinish it.” Do you still like to refinish furniture? Dimmick: No. (laughs) It’s all gone. Hughes: Here’s the golf part: “She also likes water sports, swimming and water skiing, and says she is planning to take up golf, which her husband plays enthusiastically.” Is that just so much boilerplate? Dimmick: I don’t remember planning to take up golf. Although I will tell you this: I did take a couple of lessons at Cy’s request. And then I would go back to Charlie Mortimer, the pro over at Inglewood Golf Club, and Charlie would say, “You haven’t been practicing.” And I’d say, “No Charlie, I’m working. I don’t have time to practice.” And he said, “You know, I don’t have time to teach you.” I said, “It’s a deal.” And that was the end of it. Hughes: That’s funny! Dimmick: I planned to take it up but it didn’t take. Let’s put it that way. If you could do it without having to practice I could have done it. Hughes: Meantime, Charles Smith tells the story that if you worked for Charles O. Carroll during that era, a prerequisite was that you were active in the Republican Party. At Carroll’s insistence, Smith became president of the Young Attorneys for Nixon. Did he have you out doorbelling too? Dimmick: Not for Nixon. Hughes: But were you required to be a Republican? What did you do? 42
Dimmick: What did I do? I was a Republican. Hughes: You were? Dimmick: Oh sure. Hughes: Emotionally you were a Republican? Dimmick: I was a Republican by that time, yes. Hughes: But you wanted to be? Dimmick: Yes. Hughes: Well, Charlie Smith didn’t. Dimmick: Well, Charlie had a mind of his own. I didn’t care. I just followed my family’s footsteps. I was working for an attorney general who was a Republican, and a prosecutor who was Republican. What am I going to be? It made sense to me. Hughes: But philosophically did you— Dimmick: I never went into it that deep, except to understand about the problems my father had had as a small business man. So I felt Laissez Faire was a good way to go: Just leave us alone; keep the government out, and that kind of thing. Hughes: Who were the Republican leaders of that era you admired? Dwight Eisenhower? Dimmick: Oh sure, and we had Dan Evans and Slade Gorton (in the Legislature); we had good Republicans around here. Hughes: But those certainly aren’t textbook Nixon Republicans. Those are pretty mainstream progressives — Dimmick: We all were. In the State of Washington we were never one or the other. We always got to vote for the man. Look at our senators who kept getting elected forever and ever – the Democrats, Jackson and Magnuson. So we went for the men, and I always have felt that way. But I never objected to being a Republican. In later years I’ve been quieter about it. I didn’t have the feelings I had one time when I was young. And then of course in this job, which I’ve been in over 20 years, you aren’t political. Hughes: So during this time that you were going in and out of the Prosecutor’s Office and having kids, although Carroll grumbled a bit, he was always willing to take you back? Dimmick: Always. He was great. 43
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