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...Today Boudin is probably most widely known for his defense of Ellsberg. As he discusses the trial you get a peek into the many facets of the man's personality. There is Boudin the social wit: "Everyone makes leaks when they want to--Kissinger leaks, Ehrlichman leaks, the Justice Department leaks, government clerks leak, but when Ellsberg leaks everyone makes a big deal." As he finishes, he slowly breaks into a smile--deadpan is not one of his fortes...
...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...
...1940s he joined the National Lawyer's Guild, instead of the American Bar Association, which opposed much of the New Deal legislation at the time. While many of the lawyers left the Guild for fear of being branded communist, Boudin stayed on. And he admits his decision to drop Chile as a client after the military coup this fall was more than just a coincidence...