Word: everly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first pullback might take place this summer, even if there is no reciprocity on the other side. Whatever else it might accomplish, a reduction in the American troop level-perhaps including some combat units, for effect-would demonstrate to Hanoi that the South Vietnamese government is growing ever more capable of defending and unifying its territory...
...meet the most stringent standards. Not only do almost all have lifetime appointments, but they also have unique powers over both the legislative and executive branches. On most matters, they have the final word. Almost none of the 98 justices who have sat on the Supreme Court have ever done anything even questionable, and the nation's highest tribunal has been uniquely free of outside influence...
...their hearts, many Republicans may now feel more strongly than ever that Nixon was right in using his considerable influence as a presidential candidate last fall to block Fortas' nomination as Chief Justice. In public, the G.O.P. was more concerned with avoiding any semblance of vindictiveness against the court's only Jew (though the New York Post, a Jewish-oriented newspaper, called for Fortas' resignation). In fact, Republicans had little reason to involve themselves in the furor. As one White House aide put it: "The feeling around here is that Fortas is going to have to resign...
...Fortas contretemps may quite possibly be the most serious in the Supreme Court's 180 years. No Supreme Court Justice has ever resigned under pressure. Only one-Samuel Chase in 1804-has been impeached, but on such blatantly political grounds that he was acquitted. Three years ago, it was disclosed that Justice William O. Douglas was receiving $12,000 a year in fees from a foundation linked to Las Vegas gambling interests. However, no one connected with the foundation was in immediate need of highly placed connections, as Wolfson and his associates were...
Thus Chafee neither excused Bucher or Harris nor excluded the upper Navy echelons from their responsibility for the disaster. Arguing that prosecution and punishment would serve no useful purpose for the Navy, Chafee elected to ignore all the recommendations. To a nation more leary than ever before of its military leaders, Chafee's decision must have seemed as satisfactory a settlement of the Pueblo quandary as was possible. Scapegoats had been avoided, but so had exoneration...