Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meeting in Washington, the A.D.A. national board--headed by John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics--endorsed Humphrey by a 71-16 vote, but urged him to make a "forthright call for an unconditional cessation of the bombing" of North Vietnam...
...urge Humphrey to build on his anti-bombing statement of last Monday night," the ADA statement said, "with a forthright call for an unconditional cessation of the bombing here...
...Vietnam war and the Detroit riots. The idea that Fortas and Johnson carefully probed Constitutional questions of the separation of powers before engaging in their consultations is discredited by a comment the Times attributed to one of the President's aides: "It doesn't occur to Johnson not to call on Fortas just because he's on the Supreme Court...
What the Times seemed to regard as a quaint exemplar of ranch-house politics takes on a more unsavory look in the light of at least one of the chores Fortas was apparently called upon to perform while he was a Justice. Early in 1967, Ralph Lazarus, president of the Federated Department Stores, predicted that expenditures on the war in Vietnam for the coming year would be some $5 billion over the President's public estimates. The next day Lazarus received a call from Justice Fortas, which the Times relates "was to transmit Lyndon Johnson's ire." Lazarus quickly recanted...
...these important charges was extraordinarily weak. Asked about the advisability of Justices and Presidents consulting on important issues, he replied lamely, "I did not seek the post of Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. It was not part of my life plan." Questioned about his call to businessman Lazarus, Fortas answered, "I am a Justice of the Supreme Court, but I am still a citizen." His failure to appear at a second set of hearings by the Senate Judiciary Committee could be explained by an unwillingness to put up with a few more hours of Strom Thurmond...