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...what he has done but for what he is: the choice of a man who will be in office for less than seven more months, and the President's close friend and confidant to boot. The appointment smacked of "cronyism at its worst," said Michigan's Robert Griffin, "and everybody knows it." The charge of cronyism was reinforced by the fact that, to fill the vacancy left by Earl Warren's retirement and Fortas' move up, Lyndon Johnson appointed his old friend and fellow Texan, Homer Thornberry (see box, page...
...outraged by reports that Warren is retiring so that Johnson will be able to choose his successor, 19 Republican Senators signed a petition that would deny the President the right to put anybody at all on the court during the remainder of his term. "At the present time," said Griffin, who brings considerable skills as a political organizer to the G.O.P. rebellion, "the American people are in the process of choosing a new government. By their votes in November the people will designate new leadership and new direction for our nation. Of course, a lame-duck President has the constitutional...
...roughly three hours before the networks had the chronology, the facts and their film finally sorted out and began their morning cycle. The plan, as ABC Producer Daryl Griffin put it, was to "repeat the salient points every half-hour so that people everywhere, waking up at different times, would know what was going...
Indeed, much important reporting is done by writers who have taken on new identities to gain insight into the problems of others. Seldom has the American Negro's plight been as convincingly portrayed as in Black Like Me; its white author, John Howard Griffin, darkened his skin and spent a month passing as a black in the South...
...didn't go anywhere," said Leslie F. Griffin '70, president of Afro. "The Corporation sent us their messengers, that's all. We want a real meeting...