Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper his patriotism, Texas' John Tower his warmth, good humor, good counsel and advice...
Last week Judge Cooper, 60, finally got his own big day in court...
...questioning began, the dapper, silver-haired man rose and faced the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. For the next 2½ hours, although invited to be seated, Justice Cooper stood and defended his record as chief justice of New York City's court of special sessions from 1951 to 1960, when he resigned because of the mental strain of the job. Cooper described a judicial nightmare of overcrowded dockets, inadequate facilities and inept assistants that forced him to adopt a rigorous code of courtroom conduct...
...found we were groping in the dark, and sentences were being meted out that were indiscriminate and without basis and just constantly horrifying to one who really cared deeply about what was going on," said Cooper. At another point he declared: "I tried to talk myself into the philosophy that I should content myself with the knowledge that I was doing everything that I could. I could not bring myself to that approach. Ever since I have been ten years of age I have been on my own, and every undertaking I have tried to do with everything that...
When Arkansas' Senator John McClellan asked Cooper if he felt qualified for his new post, the witness replied: "Senator, immodest though this sounds, my answer is yes." Seated by Cooper's side throughout his testimony was Brooklyn's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Cooper's sponsor. Invited to testify, Celler praised Cooper's record and declared: "Any man whose blood does not at times grow hot at the sight of evil or in the presence of utter incompetence isn't worth a pinch of snuff...