Word: counsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roman Catholic vice-presidential nominee would strengthen the national Democratic ticket because he would attract bloc votes in Northern cities. One national election later, when Kennedy went to the White House, Sorensen accompanied him as Special Counsel. He contributed heavily toward building Kennedy's domestic program, sat in on just about every major decision made in the White House. So close were Sorensen and the President that it was often hard to distinguish the point where Sorensen ended and Kennedy began...
...many of the big firms can brag that along with all their other services they offer clients the skills of specialists in the belligerent arts of litigation. Since the troops first turned out to defend the electrical-equipment companies against price-fixing charges in 1960, the roster of counsel in this continuing flood of litigation has read like a roll call of the legal elite...
...opponents get down to serious slugging, and both take damaging blows-the evidence demonstrates that McCarthy attempted to blackmail the Army and that the Army then attempted to buy McCarthy off. But in the later rounds, McCarthy begins to swing wildly, and Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel, delicately cuts him into paper dolls. His methods are exposed as stupid, his morals as prehistoric. "At long last," Welch cries in revulsion, "at long last, sir, have you no decency left at all?"-and the spectators burst into sustained applause. In the end, the other Senators on the subcommittee...
...severely hampered by the nation's verdict on Oswald. Those with an investment in seeing Oswald proved guilty are strengthened by the present public certainty of his guilt. Already their influence is felt; in a six point outline of the committee's work, given by the committee's counsel, J. Lee Rankin, four points concerned Oswald, but none even touched upon the idea that other persons may have committed the crime...
...investigation of the case at the urging of Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of the Law School. Dean Griswold is a member of the Executive Board of Directors of the Lawyer's Commission, a nationwide organization of eminent lawyers formed at President Kennedy's request to investigate and provide counsel in civil rights cases...