Word: boudin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boudin's appearance certainly doesn't overwhelm anybody. He's on the small side, and heavy bags under his eyes make him look tired. His gray-white hair, once blond, is short but disheveled, and his simple sports coat and sweater are more the dress of a recluse academic than a senior law partner with a 10-room office in downtown New York...
Leonard B. Boudin is the name. And the man's legal defense record is an impressive march through American social history; starting with labor leaders in the thirties, to alleged Russian spies in the forties, past anti-McCarthyites in the fifties, and onto Spock, Berrigan, and Ellsberg in the last decades...
...forget the Jewish grandmother in Boudin. The second he opens his mouth he betrays his Brooklyn upbringing. If you catch him in a relaxed social setting you may run into a trail of babble which is not the least bit blemished by transitional ideas: "I got into this cab today, and the cab driver has a December 3rd Newsweek--that's all right but it would have been nicer if it were December 10...I read papers, magazines, deep books, anything I can get my hands on. (What deep books, Mr. Boudin?) Well, I never read a deep book...
There's a lot in that Boudin head, accumulated from a legal career that has touched five decades. The son of a real estate lawyer, Boudin attended the City College of New York and graduated from St. John's Law School where he was an unexceptional B student. His uncle, a well-known constitutional lawyer in the '30s, took him into the firm, starting Boudin on union cases...
...Boudin feels his work in the passport cases of the fifties gave him his strong civil liberties orientation. During these years the government refused passports to individuals who wouldn't cooperate with Congressional committees. The key issue was whether travel was a right or a privilege. After eight years of litigation, in a case argued before the Supreme Court, Boudin secured the right of the individual to travel...