Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nomination. The Vice Presidentelect recommended his friend for the No. 2 spot in the Justice Department, and when Attorney General Herbert Brownell resigned in 1957, Rogers, then 44, succeeded him. Rogers was best known for vigorous prosecution of antitrust cases and for his part in drafting the 1957 civil rights bill and pushing it through Congress...
...improving law enforcement and related services. Mitchell's personal views and record in this field are invisible. If he is going to come anywhere near to fulfilling Nixon's rhetoric, the Justice Department will have to adopt more of a police approach, with less emphasis on civil liberties than existed under Ramsey Clark and Nicholas Katzenbach. Mitchell is likely to employ wiretapping against organized crime. His department will draw up new legislation providing federal help for local police services...
...along, Nixon was looking for a Negro of stature and ability. Three are known to have rejected his offers: Whitney Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, and Mrs. Ersa Poston, president of the New York Civil Service Commission. Now the Nix on scouts are hunting for black officials at the sub-Cabinet level...
Pressure is not great enough now to institute civil marriage, but a crisis and possible change will come with increased immigration of Conservative and Reform Jews and, also, if there is ever any large-scale immigration from Russia. "How many Jews since 1917 have been married by a rabbi?" Eisenstadt asked...
...Alain Enthoven, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Analysis, or whether the post is filled at all. The new Commissioner of Education can indicate what the Administration's attitude toward student protesters will be and its decision on the financial crisis of higher education Nixon's soft approach to civil rights enforcement might be hardened if a crusader is named to that post in the Justice Department...