Word: fortases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nixon was also artfully placating Southerners on certain sensitive issues. The Miami Herald managed to get a tape recorder into one of the private sessions (see THE PRESS). In the transcript it printed later, which Nixon's spokesmen did not knock down, he explained his public support of this year...
If he has done nothing else, Abe Fortas has surely shattered the standard notion that a Supreme Court Justice leads a sequestered, monastic life that takes him from bench to book-lined study and back again. After admitting that he had continued to counsel Lyndon Johnson while serving on the...
The mere fact that many Justices did and do engage in various pursuits outside the court does not mean that such activities fail to raise problems. In fact, Fortas' admission of presidential troubleshooting has only served to heighten discussion in legal circles of the propriety involved in out-of...
There is virtually nothing that is absolutely guaranteed not to come before the court. Fortas, for instance, has frequently discussed Viet Nam with the President and is a known backer of Administration policy. Given those circumstances, Professor William Bishin of the University of Southern California argues that "Fortas couldn'...
The whole affair was particularly trying for Fortas, who could not very well answer back. In his only public comment, he noted, only half-facetiously, that his "anger and outraged silence" might cause ulcers. The ulcers are likely to proliferate when the Senate reconvenes. All but inconceivable as it seemed...