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...Deal stalwart, a student and longtime friend of liberal Justice Douglas, Fortas is expected to maintain the court's current liberal, activist majority-with a special interest in civil liberties. His approach can be expected to differ only in degree from that of Arthur Goldberg, whose seat-the so-called Jewish seat-he takes on the court. But Fortas will bring with him to the bench a special problem. His long and intimate friendship with the President and his handling of some of the more difficult episodes in the Johnson catalogue will be constantly remembered. That means that both...
...freshmen have followed that advice-and, with the exception of seven Southern Congressmen who owe their allegiance elsewhere, their fidelity to the programs of their party leader, Lyndon Johnson, has established them as just about the solidest voting bloc in Congress. The 58 non-Southern-bloc freshman Democrats differ greatly. Oklahoma's Jed Johnson is 25, while Iowa's John Hansen is the oldest at 63. Wisconsin's John Race is a machinist and New York's James Hanley is a mortician. California's John V. Tunney, son of the ex-heavyweight boxing champion...
...philosophy of running," as he calls it, is simple: "I want to win at all costs. I have the killer instinct. But I do differ from most trackmen. Two seconds after the race, win or lose, I don't care any more. Losing encourages me to do better the next time. On the other hand, I know that if I win tonight, I'll probably lose the next race. My attitude was summed up very well by Kipling. 'If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same...
...Opinions differ on the essence of his appeal. Elsa Maxwell defined it as being "so unbelievably charming and thoughtful that you are off guard before you know it." Zsa Zsa Gabor said he was "a gentleman who should have been born a hundred years ago-this century is too fast for him, too cold." Men were apt to dismiss his allure as a capacity for taking infinite pains in the pursuit of pleasure: having a match flaming by the time a woman's cigarette touched her lips, for example, or being, as his old Paris nickname of "Toujours...
...vice-presidential running mate, and it is in recounting that incident that White's book strikes most of its sparks. With Bobby-for-Vice-President trial balloons going up all over the country, the President in late July 1964 summoned the Attorney General to the White House. Versions differ, more in tone than detail, as to just what happened, and White gives both sides...