Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cronyism issue on the first day, Fortas came prepared for the second with an annotated list of 14 previous Justices who had advised Presidents. The first Chief Justice, John Jay (1789-1795) counseled George Washington.* The fifth, Roger Taney, helped Andrew Jackson. Associate Justice David Davis, Lincoln's close friend and executor, advised the Civil War President, while Louis Brandeis was called in by Woodrow Wilson during several World War I crises. Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft, in Fortas' words, "performed extensive advisory services for Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...
...much of his support from those hungry for a new kind of leadership, from some Republicans, and from independents of both conservative and liberal bent. For many in and around the New Left, an anti-war candidate sympathetic to the disinherited and leary of an overly powerful executive is close to ideal...
...Viet Nam stand. Labor officials are testy about his indifference. Negroes and white liberals are fed up with his consistent votes against civil rights laws, most recently open housing. He has even irritated some up-country puritans because he wrote an article for Playboy that appeared embarrassingly close to a gatefold photograph of what one foe described, in a shocked voice, as "a nekkid girl...
...also, reported Prchlík, invited ex-Party Boss Novotny to Moscow to broadcast a plea for Dubček's overthrow via their network. (Last week Novotny was waiting things out at a country villa at Rokycany, about nine miles from Pilsen, where he was under close surveillance.) The Russian embassy in Prague contains a printing plant that has been turning out a stream of antireform leaflets...
Decisive Dealings. For long weeks, he had retreated into his shell, seeing practically no one but a few close friends and hardly ever appearing on the telly or the front pages. Now Wilson has suddenly re-emerged with force. First, he dealt decisively with his disintegrating Cabinet, warning right-wing dissidents two weeks ago to shape up by quoting Harry Truman's famous dictum, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." Then he announced at a party rally that Britain, which has been having more than its share of economic difficulties...