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...occupying troops in Iraq are still getting killed on a regular basis. The Greeks had a name for it: Pyrrhic victory. With Bush on a roll, how many more such victories can we look forward to? IRVING STANTON ELMAN Pacific Palisades, Calif...
Starr, Jones, Willey et al. are part of a pro-Clinton conspiracy. The more they attack the President, the higher his approval ratings go. IRV ELMAN Pacific Palisades, Calif...
...Elman started telling his story in 1983 for a Columbia University oral history project, and his disclosures were published in February's Harvard Law Review, from where they jumped last week to the front page of the New York Times. In his interview, Elman recalls that for years Frankfurter telephoned him almost every Sunday night at home. In some of their talks in 1952, the judge discussed the fact that several Justices feared that if they ordered immediate school integration, the result would be virtual warfare across the South. Frankfurter wanted "more than anything else" for the court to decide...
...Government was not then involved in the case, but late in 1952 Elman helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the Truman Administration. He was prompted by Frankfurter's disclosures to go against his own sense of the proper legal argument and tailor the brief to offer the wavering judges a key compromise: that the court could permit states to take a gradual approach to integration. That tactic was later adopted in a unanimous court ruling that called for integration "with all deliberate speed...
...addition to criticism of Frankfurter, the account produced dissent from black civil rights lawyers, who say that it seriously underplayed their role in the case. Elman says he is "shocked" by the current commotion. Frankfurter "didn't regard me as a lawyer for any party," he told his Columbia interviewer. "I was still his law clerk." Indeed, the childless Frankfurter was renowned for treating former students and law clerks as an extended family, finding them influential jobs in Washington and turning to them as a sounding board for his thoughts...