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...when starting work as Justice Robert Jackson’s law clerk. Rehnquist offers details of nearly everything: the drive in a small blue Studebaker from his parents’ home in Wisconsin, the seemingly endless steps up the Supreme Court building, his first glimpse of the courtroom, his first memorandum to recommend whether a hearing should be granted for a certain case. Though interesting, the pace of the first chapter seems to creep along interminably...
...courtroom was stunned. It was the 12th and final day of testimony in the inquiry into why the 6,300-ton nuclear sub shot to the surface in a procedure known as a ballast blow, slicing into the hull of the 58-m Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little...
...testified that they thought Waddle was going through the emergency-ascent routine too quickly but did not want to challenge him with civilians present in the control room. During the inquiry, Rear Admiral Albert Konetzni, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force, looked over at Waddle in the courtroom and said, "He is like my brother, if not my son. I'd like to go over there and punch him for not taking more time." But Waddle rigorously defended the procedures onboard the Greeneville, denying that he had cut corners on safety or that he had been...
...courtroom was stunned. It was the 12th and final day of testimony in the inquiry into why the 6,900-ton nuclear sub shot to the surface in a procedure known as a ballast blow, slicing into the hull of the 190-ft. Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little...
...testified that they thought Waddle was going through the emergency-ascent routine too quickly but did not want to challenge him with civilians present in the control room. During the inquiry, Rear Admiral Albert Konetzni, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force, looked over at Waddle in the courtroom and said, "He is like my brother, if not my son. I'd like to go over there and punch him for not taking more time." But Waddle rigorously defended the procedures onboard the Greeneville, denying that he had cut corners on safety or that he had been...