Word: equalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist on fobbing off Robert Kennedy's political strength on some sort of mystical personality cult? The fact is that no other living man can show credentials of experience and accomplishment equal to his at his age-even fuller and more distinguished than John Kennedy's at the same...
...congressional authority grows clearer and clearer. The legal roadblock has been all but removed by the Supreme Court's recently manifested willingness to let Congress give its own broad constitutional interpretation to the 14th Amendment guarantee that no state shall "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
Glowing Goal. In lone dissent, Justice John M. Harlan (grandfather of the present justice) argued that the whole spirit of the amendment was positive: that it ordered states to provide equal access to public facilities of all kinds. But the court then saw the amendment as merely a curb on discriminatory "state action," giving neither the court nor the Congress power to regulate individual behavior. As a result, while states cannot enforce segregation, they are free to deal as they please with private housing discrimination...
...Equal Blame. Roche gives the President the same high marks for his achievements in other fields, such as social welfare and civil rights: "Never in American history has an Administration taken such a series of giant steps toward the attainment of liberal objectives as we have seen under the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson." He is well aware that other intellectuals do not feel that way: "Johnson's very success in managing the creaky congressional machinery has generated suspicion. Never in my memory has the intellectual community been so bitterly anti-Administration...
...cause ever fought has been fought against more stupid, blind social prejudice, not even the cause of the people against the divine rights of kings, nor the cause of equal suffrage, nor any of the battles of freedom...