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...Supreme Court Justice retires or dies, the President usually takes a while to name a successor. Franklin Roosevelt waited six months, for example, before naming Frankfurter to succeed Benjamin Cardozo. But Kennedy had made up his mind in advance, announced Frankfurter's replacement right away: Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg (TIME cover, Sept. 22. 1961). Longtime general counsel of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg, 54, qualified as an eminent and successful lawyer, as a liberal of the activist New Frontier type, and as a Jew (Frankfurter was the court's only Jewish member, and political doctrine demanded that his successor...
Beyond Wirtz. In nominating a man to succeed Goldberg as Labor Secretary...
Kennedy again acted swiftly: he tapped Goldberg's No. 2 man, Under Secretary W. (for William) Willard Wirtz. Lawyer Wirtz, 50, is a veteran Washington hand who became a member of the War Labor Board at 31. As a law professor at North western University from 1946 to 1954 and a law partner of Adlai Stevenson's from 1955 to 1961, he specialized in labor law, served as an arbitrator in many labor-management disagreements...
When the President announced his nomination, Wirtz was in Chicago with Goldberg, helping in a last unsuccessful effort to avert a strike against the Chicago & North Western, the U.S.'s third biggest railroad in track mileage. When Goldberg and Wirtz got back to Washington, they hurriedly washed up to get ready for a joint press conference. Goldberg asked Wirtz if he wanted to borrow a clean shirt. "No thanks," cracked Wirtz. "I'd rather try on your shoes...
Wirtz has a reputation as a wit, and he tried hard to live up to it at the press conference. After Goldberg made a speech saying he was "delighted beyond words" that Wirtz was going to succeed him, Wirtz opened up his own little speech with: "If it was a pun the Secretary was intending, and he was saying he was delighted beyond Wirtz, he was wrong." At one point, Wirtz quoted from Tennyson's Idylls of the King...