Word: eschbacher
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...party. But Kennedy, once in office, found the temptation politically irresistible. He renominated three Eisenhower candidates for the bench, but of the first 95 appointees picked by his own Administration, there was nary a Republican. Last week, Kennedy finally got around to appointing his first G.O.P. judge: Jesse Ernest Eschbach, 41, who was nominated to the U.S. District Court for Indiana...
Small-town Lawyer Eschbach has harbored an ambition to be a federal judge ever since he was in Indiana University's School of Law-but it long looked as if he might not make it. He served a hitch in the wartime Navy between college and law school, later settled down to a general law practice in Warsaw, Ind. (pop. 7,234), but left the law for a couple of years to try his hand as an officer of a furniture-manufacturing company. Though he has dabbled in politics, he has never held elective office, was not widely known...
...Administration intends to appoint about ten more Republicans among the 38 judgeships that remain to be filled. Like Eschbach, most of them will probably get appointments in areas that are already solidly Republican (and are thus not likely to be swayed by federal favors) or in populous states (New York, Illinois and California) where several Democrats have already been chosen and the party is satisfied. Once this is done, Kennedy's score on partisanship will be little different from that of his predecessors: Roosevelt named 208 Democrats and 8 Republicans, Truman 129 Democrats and 13 Republicans, Eisenhower 175 Republicans...
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