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...Earl Warren, LL.D., retired U.S. Chief Justice...
...President we ever had." Dwight Eisenhower's son John, a Nixon inlaw, composed a hearts-and-flowers allegory about "the Coach" whose team has committed errors "out of an excessive loyalty to him and the Institution." As it turns out, the man described was onetime Army Football Coach Earl H. ("Red") Blaik, and his dilemma was the 1951 cheating scandal at West Point that decimated his team. Eisenhower noted that Blaik rebuilt his team and retired with honor. The moral: "Is there any reason to believe that our nation's Coach, Richard Nixon, will do less...
...problem: good-advice givers are not necessarily good administrators. Many of the recently departed executives are former consultants who had trouble making the transition. "It is a safe assumption that if a man is a good consultant, he does not want to be president in a large firm," says Earl W. Eames of Manhattan's Wright Associates. Beyond that, a number of important consulting firms have gone public since the late 1960s, but most of their stocks are selling far below the original offering price, breeding discontent among shareholders and managers. Part of the problem is that going public...
...Such 'Disneyland' contentions are becoming commonplace," wrote the angry court of appeals judge in 1965 as he turned down what he considered to be a frivolous claim: that a defendant in a lineup has a right to have his lawyer present. Two years later Earl Warren's Supreme Court made that Disneyland contention the law of the land. Five years after that, with the angry appeals judge now sitting as Chief Justice of the U.S., the Supreme Court had hedged the lineup right substantially...
...specific law-and-order resolve to "strengthen the peace forces as against the criminal forces." But Nixon can only choose the Justices; the power to decide cases remains with them. Simon clearly illustrates the different uses of that power in two fine and scrupulously fair portraits of Earl Warren and Warren Burger, the lookalike, think-apart Chiefs. Warren is shown cutting through the legalities to ask "But is it fair?" In his opinions Warren "galloped past the problems to his conclusion," Simon observes. He exemplified "honesty, fairness, patriotism and idealism...