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Clifford prefers to see himself as a statesman using the "art of persuasion," but most of the time, he has been a hired gun in Washington's range wars, a tactician seeking out the right angle of attack. He counseled Jimmy Carter's Budget Director Bert Lance on his banking...
In light of Clifford's current troubles, his reflections on Fortas are heavy with irony. "What had driven a man of such exceptional intelligence to bring himself down through such dubious financial arrangements?" he asks. His answer: Fortas "wanted both the glory of public service and the wealth of a...
One of the invigorating and, in most cases, gratifying aspects of court history is how appointees, once in their black robes, see the nation and events independently. Often they have exasperated or disappointed the Presidents who appointed them. Earl Warren and Brennan dismayed Ike with their liberalism, but theirs was...
So far from foreshadowing the Bork hearings, the Fortas affair is a prelude to Watergate, another time when democracy caught up with its defilers. What nags at the end of this book, though, is that had Fortas not accepted Johnson's appointment to the Court as he had tried to...
...knows today that the number of Abe Fortases who roam the White House halls and never get caught simply because they never officially become a part of the government is large. And so long as their ranks remain large, the lesson of the rise and ruin of Abe Fortas will never be fully learned...