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Unlikely Figure. Gideon himself hardly seems at first glance to be the figure of a man of destiny: gaunt, cantankerous, half-educated, a petty gambler and four-times-convicted felon. Yet as one lawyer remarked, "It has become almost axiomatic that the great rights which are secured for all of...
Bundy was off on vacation in Antigua. The President now often turns for guidance to Elder Statesman Dean Acheson and such old cronies as Washington Lawyers Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford. He also consults regularly with the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which is comprised of a few top businessmen and...
The President dispatched Adviser Abe Fortas to Atheneum Publishers with a collection of his speeches to be turned into a book, ordered early payment of $234 million in veterans' insurance dividends to get more cash into circulation. There was a long lunch with Dean Acheson, followed by high praise...
Among these are such elder statesmen as Dean Acheson, 70, to whose acerbic tongue Kennedy liked to listen -but whose advice he did not often accept. Then there are Benjamin Cohen, 69, Thomas ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 62, legal-eagle wheeler-dealers of the early New Deal days, and James...
To a noted Washington lawyer, Abe Fortas, many Congressional investigations such as the McCarthy hearings have failed flagrantly to meet these tests. Fortas has said, "There are no standards of judgment, no rules, no traditions of procedures or judicial demeanor, no statute of limitations, no appeals, no boundaries of relevance...