Word: fortases
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What Do You Care? Not an easy man to work with, Johnson at first found it hard to recruit top men for government. But his recent appointments-Arthur Goldberg to the U.N., Thurgood Marshall as Solicitor General, John Gardner as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Abe Fortas to...
Last week the politician of that pair, Lyndon Johnson, put the presidential seal on the friendship of 30 years by naming the lawyer, Abe Fortas, as his first appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The Qualifications. Justice-designate Fortas, 55, has a remarkable set of qualifications for the high office. He helped put himself through Southwestern College in Memphis by playing the violin at dances. From Southwestern he went to Yale Law School,* where he won the coveted editorship of the Yale Law Journal...
Such questions used to be a staple of law-school graduation oratory. And as such, they were all too often brushed aside. But U.S. lawyers can no longer ignore them, for the constitutional right to counsel is no longer limited to accused Americans who have the necessary cash. In its...
Earlier in the week, Johnson had seemed to be bouncing back. He more than rose to the occasion at a White House banquet honoring Vice President Hubert Humphrey (see following story], House Speaker John McCormack and Chief Justice Earl Warren. The guest list was impressive. All the Justices of the...