Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assist them, the Commission members named as their chief counsel James Lee Rankin, 57, a top Manhattan attorney who had been President Eisenhower's Solicitor General, carried the Government's argument in the 1953 school-desegregation cases and the Little Rock high school case. Rankin recruited a staff of 14 outstanding private lawyers and law professors. All 56 field offices of the FBI lent their help. So did the CIA, the Secret Service, the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service?and even the Soviet government, which sent in sketchy reports of Oswald's 32-month stay in Russia...
First, beginning in early October, Ford will ask the department chairmen to evaluate the report on relatively narrow grounds; how does it affect their own domain? By seeking the counsel of the department heads first, Ford will be able to anticipate the significant objections and qualifications of the report's most likely critics...
Rauh was now on the phone 12 to 14 hours a day, cashing in on a life-time of political favors owed him in liberal circles. As a UAW legal counsel, he enjoyed excellent relations with labor and soon secured formal endorsement from all UAW and IUE members who were Democratic delegates. Even the officially non-partisan AFL-CIO lent moral support in the back room...
Late Monday night Roy Wilkins visited FDP spokesman Aaron Henry and urged him to back down. Henry refused and the Party lost NAACP support. Rauh and King continued to counsel firmness. The wisdom of their resolve was proven Tuesday when the Administration offered a fresh compromise, giving the Freedom Party two at-large seats on the floor. Under intense Presidential pressure, New York and California, the core of the FDP's support, agreed to the proposal. In a hurried caucus of the Freedom delegation, Rauh and King urged the Party to accept the compromise and hail it as a great...
Late Monday night Roy Wilkins visited FDP spokesman Aaron Henry and urged him to back down. Henry refused and the Party lost NAACP support. Rauh and King continued to counsel firmness. The wisdom of their resolve was proven Tuesday when the Administration offered a fresh compromise, giving the Freedom Party two at-large seats on the floor. Under intense Presidential pressure, New York and California, the core of the FDP's support, agreed to the proposal. In a hurried caucus of the Freedom delegation, Rauh and King urged the Party to accept the compromise and hail it as a great...