Word: harlan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes the oath. On the other hand, even open, formal service to the President-as distinguished from informal advice such as Fortas gave Johnson-has been criticized. Eugene McCarthy has faulted Johnson for asking Earl Warren to head the commission investigating John Kennedy's assassination. Chief Justice Harlan Stone refused Franklin Roosevelt's request to look into the vexatious problem of how the nation was to get its desperately needed rubber during World War II. Such an extracurricular duty, Stone wrote, exposes a Justice to attack and "indeed invites it," inevitably impairing "his value as a judge...
...helped to warm things up a few degrees. Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia would once again seriously chill the diplomatic atmosphere. It was Russian tanks in Budapest, in fact, that abruptly froze a momentary thaw in 1956. The difficult balance between deep-freeze and detente can be frustrating, says Harlan Cleveland, U.S. Ambassador to NATO, since it offers none of "the clarities of either unambiguous war or unalloyed peace." But, troubling as the ambiguities of Honolulu and Prague may be, they are obviously preferable to the cataclysmic clarity that a conflict between the superpowers would afford...
...toward conservatism, it might move toward the right ? though probably not enough to satisfy the congressional critics. More vacancies might come even before Johnson leaves office. Black is 82; Douglas, 69, recently had an electronic pacemaker implanted in his chest to correct a slow heart rate; John Marshall Harlan, 69, has failing eyesight...
...read the record of the debate that preceded passage of the 1866 bill, the court was persuaded that legislators of the time were well aware of the law's broad implications. Still, said Justice John Harlan in dissent, 100 years ago few legislators really contemplated as much reach as the court has found in the act: "The individualistic ethic of their time emphasized personal freedom and embodied a distaste for governmental interference. It seems to me that most of these men would have regarded it as a great intrusion on individual liberty for the government to take from...
Moreover, Harlan could not forget the nation's new open-housing law just passed by Congress. Though it does not start to go into effect until next year, it provides sanctions against those who discriminate in the sale of housing -except for individuals who sell their own property without the aid of a real estate agent, or who rent rooms in a boarding house that they own and live in. That is the legislative will of 1968, said Harlan, and the court should not go beyond it. The majority countered the argument by observing that Congress had carefully noted...