Word: johnsons
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Senate confirmation. The Democrats claim that Johnson informed Nixon of his plans for Goldberg when the pair met at the White House on Nov. 11. Ignoring probity and protocol, they charge, Nixon then telephoned Warren without informing Johnson and asked the Chief Justice to preside at his swearing-in ceremony and to remain on the court until next June. According to this version, Warren agreed, not knowing of Johnson's intentions...
Meanwhile, speculation arose as to why, if the accusations are accurate, Nixon chose that course. One theory is that Nixon was trying to force Johnson to drop the Goldberg proposal. Neither Nixon nor some of his conservative al lies, such as Senator Strom Thurmond, want a liberal like Goldberg leading the court. On the other hand, this argument also suggests that Nixon does not want as one of his first official acts the task of withdrawing the nomination. To do so could incur the wrath of Goldberg's Democratic supporters in the Congress, legislators whose cooperation Nixon urgently needs...
...Stakes. In any event, the next move is up to Johnson. Goldberg, who was an Associate Justice on the court for nearly three years before becoming Ambassador to the U.N. in 1965 - he resigned in June 1968 - would dearly like to have the job of Chief Justice. While some Senators could probably delay the Goldberg confirmation by filibustering, Senate reaction is generally favorable to the nomination. The question is whether, even at the end of his reign, Johnson is willing to place his domes tic leadership on trial again. At stake is the ideological complexion that the Supreme Court will...
...reason for the Russians' gingerly approach is that they face some grievous internal problems and want time to solve them. Thus, though the Kremlin rulers no longer seem particularly interested in meeting with Lyndon Johnson before he leaves office, they have let it be known that they are eager to confer with the new U.S. President. A summit meeting would help restore the international standing that the Soviet Union lost with the invasion of Czechoslovakia in August. The Russians also want to reach some sort of agreement on limiting the building of anti-missile defenses, if for no other...
Vienna Rendezvous. Yet another sign of the Soviet desire to keep channels of communication with the U.S. relatively clear was a quiet meeting held in Vienna's elegant Hotel Imperial last week between McGeorge Bundy, president of the Ford Foundation and former national security adviser to Presidents Johnson and Kennedy, and Dzher-man Gvishiani, son-in-law of Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and a ranking member of the state committee for science and technology. The ostensible reason for the get-together was to discuss the creation of an East-West Institute, perhaps to be located in the Austrian capital...