Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party for Lyndon Johnson. At Nixon's invitation, the ex-Chief Executive will come to California to celebrate his 61st birthday. There Nixon intends to present his predecessor with a thoughtful gift. He is going to dedicate "Lady Bird Grove" in Redwood National Park in tribute to the former First Lady's efforts to beautify the nation...
Several weeks ago, Thurmond publicly endorsed his old friend Donald Russell, a federal district court judge and former Senator from South Carolina, for the Fortas seat. The endorsement may well have been sincere, but some suspected legerdemain. Anyone known as "Thurmond's man" would be a clear embarrassment to Nixon. By backing Russell, Thurmond in effect cleared the air for another South Carolinian, Haynsworth...
...many ways, Haynsworth is the stereotype of a courtly Southern judge. He combs his gray hair nearly straight back, with just a slant to the right, and carries himself with an almost fastidious precision. He is, as one former law clerk describes him, "a quiet, serious, somewhat shy man who displays a good sense of humor once you know him." This trait emerges occasionally in mild, improbable pranks, as when his neighbors recently bought a new lawnmower. Haynsworth showed up with a beribboned bottle of Fresca to christen the new machine...
Haynsworth graduated summa cum laude in 1933 from Greenville's Furman College, founded by his great-great-grandfather Richard Furman. He went north to Harvard Law School, graduating in 1936. During World War II, he served in naval intelligence in the Pacific. In 1946, Haynsworth married the former Dorothy Merry Barkley, who had had two sons by a previous marriage. (The couple have no children of their own.) Haynsworth raises prize camellias in the greenhouse behind his $100,000 Greenville mansion, and in the evenings likes to listen to Beethoven, Brahms, Bach and Mozart. An Episcopalian, he attends Greenville...
...diplomats had strongly urged Thieu to retain a civilian front for his government. Not long ago, such advice might have been swiftly heeded. But with U.S. troops beginning to withdraw, American influence in Saigon is waning and bound to decline further. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford wrote recently in Foreign Affairs quarterly that Viet Nam's "political realities are, in the final analysis, both beyond our control and beyond our ken." In putting together his new government, Thieu could prove that point emphatically. His decisions might not only be beyond the control or comprehension of the U.S. but might...