Biden tells NPR he "fought like hell" to support Anita Hill and oppose Clarence Thomas'

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100. The transcript of the 4th day, when Hill testified, runs to 1,032 single-spaced pages.

You can download the PDF here:

http://www.loc.gov/law/find/nominations/thomas/hearing-pt4.pdf

It includes complete transcripts of Wright's and Jourdain's testimony to committee staffers, and on pages 439, Biden's invitation to Wright to testify personally, which she signed on page 440:

Dear Ms. Wright: It is my preference that you testify before the
Judiciary Committee in connection with the nomination of Judge
Clarence Thomas.

But, in light of the time constraints under which
the Committee is operating and the willingness of all the members
of the Committee to have placed in the record of the hearing the
transcripts of the interviews of you and your corroborating witness,
Ms. Rose Jourdain, J-o-u-r-d-a-i-n, conducted by the majority and
minority staff, I am prepared to accede to the mutual agreement of
you and the members of the Committee, both Republican and Democrat,
that the subpoena be vitiated. Thus the transcribed interviews
of you and Ms. Rose Jourdain will be placed in the record
without rebuttal at the hearing.

I wish to make clear, however, that if you want to testify at the
hearing in person I will honor that request.

Signed: Sincerely, Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

Postscript on the bottom I attached from Angela Wright: "I
agree the admission of the transcript of my interview and that of
Ms. Jourdain's in the record without rebuttal at the hearing represents
my position and is completely satisfactory to me."