Word: ike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warren's career took a sudden, decisive turn. In September 1953 Chief Justice Fred Vinson died. President Eisenhower was under pressure to name a successor before the court convened in October. As Associate Justice William O. Douglas tells it, Vice President Nixon and Senator William Knowland went to Ike and urged him to choose Warren as a means of breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather than a bland...
Eight months after the 63-year-old Chief Justice arrived on the bench, the court disturbed the peace of Ike's first term by handing down its historic decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which overturned rulings going back to 1896 and required an end to de jure segregation in the nation's schools...
...Ike's successors have been striving to emulate his tone and position in the Great American Center. Lyndon Johnson dearly loved talking about the virtues of consensus, until he lost his. Richard Nixon early in office developed a rhetorical style that he has not yet shaken: defining two abhorrent extremes, which might be the easy or popular courses to take, and then ? with the air of a man saying "politics be damned" ? asserting that he will daringly follow a middle course...
...declared. There were those in the audience who thought she was perhaps referring to Sly's former reputation for failing to fulfill engagements. Then she introduced Family Friend Bishop B.R. Stewart of the Church of God in Christ, who had replaced, at her insistence, the Rev. Ike. Explained a Sly aide: "The only denomination Ike knows anything about...
...Hiss case (1948), the fund furor and Checkers speech (1952), Ike's heart attach (1955), the Latin American tour (1958), the Kitchen Debate with Kruschev (1959), the 1960 presidential campaign...