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...profoundly sympathized with Judge Clement Haynsworth after the Senate rejected the South Carolinian for the Supreme Court. In a sense, Thornberry had been there himself. Lyndon Johnson nominated him to replace Justice Abe Fortas on the theory that Fortas would be moving up to Chief Justice on Earl Warren's retirement. Thornberry is depressed by Haynsworth's rejection. "Haynsworth was unacceptable because he is a conservative Southerner," Thornberry tells friends in Texas, "not because he's unethical." Then he adds: "The fight is gone from the Senate now, so they'll likely confirm anyone...
...sorts of food-chicken, mints, cheese, peanut butter-were being passed through the crowd. We sang with Pete Seeger, we jumped for Richie Havens, we laughed at Tim Leary. A fat man frowned and a young girl took pictures while we rolled joints; everybody else smiled. Then they announced Earl Scruggs. We jumped up and began a round
...dead soldiers were Earl Patterson and Patrick Haggerty. The only people who heard us shout their names at the White House were others in the March Against Death. And they were too busy trying to remember their own dead men's names to notice us. It was so hard to remember their names...
There were few observers except for marshals and police, and fewer hecklers. But one man stood outside the Internal Revenue Service and called out, "Did you ask Earl Patterson if he wanted you to carry that light? How about Patrick...
...Earl Patterson and Patrick Haggerty. They are dead. Some marchers get Vietnamese villages to shout out. Dead villages, Marchers can also request the name of a dead relative. Whatever is dead, the marcher shouts the name at the White House, which isn't listening-unless some supersensitive bug hidden in the glare of the light records all the marchers' voice prints for future reference...