Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Felix Frankfurter resigned in the summer of 1962. Schlesinger says Kennedy "inclined at first towards Freund" to replace him. Robert Kennedy '48, then attorney-general, urged the President to consider Archibald Cox, then solicitor-general and has since returned to Harvard as professor of Law. "Unhappy about choosing between these two men of high ability and comparable backgrounds" Kennedy instead appointed Arthur Goldberg, now ambassador to the United Nations...
Ernest J. Brown, professor of Law will teach the first week of the course. Both he and Archibald Cox '34, former Solicitor-General, will lecture on interstate commerce. Cox will follow Brown...
...Cox felt that the decision had had no simple, direct effect on the American party structure. "The impact on parties is a speculative matter and varied from case to case," he stated. The reapportionment case had originally been taken up by a Republican solicitor general, Lee Rankin, before it was presented under a Democratic administration, he reminded his audience...
...Cox termed the Court's decision in Baker v. Carr, the first reapportionment case, "as explicit an inquiry into the court's functions as in any case that I've read...
...Much of Cox's speech concerned personal reminiscences about the progress of the reapportionment cases between 1961 and 1963 and about the personalities involved...