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Mathias felt that the Haynsworth nomination was an appeal to sectionalism and to the right. He also believed that it threatened the court's standards. So he cast his negative vote-but with sorrow. "It's been such a tough ordeal because you wanted to stick with the President. And then compassion for Haynsworth makes it very personal. So you have all the wrenching of loyalties and compassion pulling against your sense of truth, and you know that people have entrusted you with this kind of decision. So you just have to do the best you can with...
...Many questions about My Lai remain unanswered. Who had ordered the attack on the hamlet, which was apparently designated as a "free-fire" zone? What exactly were the orders? The answers may come out in a court-martial; Fort Benning Commander Major General Orwin Talbott is expected to announce a decision this week on whether Lieut. Galley is to be tried. Even so, time has already erased much of the evidence...
...began to harbor political ambitions. He poured $25,000 into Roosevelt's 1932 campaign, raised another $100,000 from friends. F.D.R. rewarded him with public office-the chairmanship of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, appointment to the Maritime Commission, and the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (at the time an especially intriguing position for an Irish Catholic Kennedy). Though he ever after cherished the title of "Ambassador," the post did not work out well. He became fast friends with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, endorsed appeasement and returned home stunned and embittered...
...chose precisely the same words used by Mrs. Graham. But a partial contradiction of Agnew's charge of monolithism was produced by an issue close to Richard Nixon's heart. Last week the Post ran an editorial supporting Judge Haynsworth's elevation to the Supreme Court; WTOP opposed...
...made any bones about his Communist leanings, often supporting the Moscow line. Yet as a union lawyer he was tops; he played a major role in negotiating the original C.I.O. contracts with such industrial giants as U.S. Steel and General Motors, and ably fought labor cases before the Supreme Court...