José A. Cabranes, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Second Circuit, Portrait Dedication [91:55-92:49]

but I immediately grasped the concept. This was 1978 not long after Watergate so the phrase was immediately recognizable to me as a Puerto Rican version of big enchilada. Some of you who are old enough to remember that to have lived through this period will know that on the Nixon White House tapes, Nixon's a John Erlichman had famously referred to attorney general John Mitchell as the big enchilada. Now although the phrase big chicharone was new to me I was flattered by Bart's apparent command of the Puerto Rican subculture. After all the new president of Yale was deploying Puerto Rican slang and asking me to be his big chicharone. Now Puerto Rico at Chicharong is a deep fried pork rind.