Word: abe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dissent has flourished in all U.S. wars except World War II, when Pearl Harbor unified the nation. One-third of colonial Americans openly supported Britain in the Revolution; New England almost seceded in the War of 1812; the Mexican-American War was loudly scorned by such Congressmen as Abe Lincoln. During the Civil War, Lincoln himself was so reviled that at one point only one Congressman backed his re-election as President. Korea became "Truman's war"-and Ike's path to the White House. In scoffing at Stephen Decatur's maxim, "Our country, right or wrong...
...whose members, General Creighton ("Abe") Abrams, was appointed last month as Westmoreland's deputy and likely successor...
Presiding over the court was Chief Justice Earl Warren, who as attorney general of California in 1942 had been vocal in demanding that Japanese-Americans be evacuated from their West Coast homes. On the bench was Justice Abe Fortas, who as wartime Under Secretary of the Interior had protested the mass lockups. Justice Tom Clark, who had been the Justice Department's representative in California a quarter of a century ago and worked with the military in detaining the Japanese-Americans, did not participate in the decision...
...that is so, Lyndon Johnson stands to lose a lot of friends. He has already named one Justice, Abe Fortas, and it does not look as though Tom Clark will leave the only vacancy in the next few years. Time must soon tell on Hugo Black, 81, Earl Warren, 76, William O. Douglas, 68, and John M. Harlan, 67, whose sight is failing. Should Johnson be returned to office next year, he could wind up naming six Supreme Court Justices, the third highest presidential record* after Washington's ten and F.D.R.'s nine. Still attuned to senatorial psychology...
...tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams...