Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...congressional opponents of the Supreme Court, it was a moment of high satisfaction. Never before had a Chief Justice-designate been grilled by a Senate committee. Never before had there been so dramatic an opportunity to voice criticism of the Warren court. For Abe Fortas, the confrontation must have been an occasion of particular pain. After four days of hearings before James Eastland's Senate Judiciary Committee, it was plain that the most serious impediment to his confirmation as 15th Chief Justice of the United States may prove to be his friendship with Lyndon Johnson...
Nixon is still capable of little bloopers. He was too quick, for instance, to criticize Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even further. His attempts at small talk fall flat. On a Portland television program, he told listeners his secret for staying trim. "I eat proteins," he said. "I eat a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese. I eat cottage cheese until it runs out my ears. And one thing I do that...
...President's old friends, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, objects to the lame-duck label. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Johnson's Supreme Court nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Dirksen fulminated: "I find that term lame duck as applied to the President of the U.S. an entirely improper and offensive term...
...another fraternally), he is "an utterly delightful companion. In conference, no matter how tense the situation, he comes off with his delightful cracks." In the view of Madame Hervé Alphand, wife of the former French ambassador and one of the most noted capital hostesses, he was entirely outgoing. "Zat Abe," she once commented, "he dances with all the girls?long, short, fat, and thin...
...pressed into service. The Justice numbers Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals among his friends, and has helped to arrange the annual Casals Festival in Puerto Rico. In a jest that his enemies might not recognize, he has sometimes introduced himself at White House functions as "Abe Fortas?I am a violinist." His Italian Guidantus violin may be his proudest possession...