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...climax worthy of Profiles in Courage, Teddy finished his eulogy, paused, and declared: "I therefore ask unanimous consent that nomination of Francis Morrissey be recommitted to the Committee on the Judiciary." Thus, he effectively killed Frank Morrissey's chances of a $30,000-a-year lifetime federal judgeship, at least for now, and probably forever...
Before the furor over Frank Morrissey's nomination for a federal judgeship died down last week (see THE NATION), it had ricocheted through headlines and editorials across the country. Yet relatively few people realized that the major factor in bringing the Morrissey case to a head was one newspaper's display of the kind of dogged, investigative journalism that is rare these days in the U.S. press. The paper is the Boston Globe, which zealously carried on a crusade to discover everything possible about the man it thought unfit for high judicial office...
...Kennedys have come to symbolize to many the pursuit of excellence and the standard of ability as the criterion for advancement. It is therefore doubly disillusioning, disheartening and disgusting for them to advocate Morrissey for a federal judgeship...
...subtle merits and elusive memo ries of Francis Xavier Morrissey, 55, were scrutinized for nine hours by Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...
...reward for Morrissey's services, President Kennedy first proposed elevating him to the federal bench in 1961, but backed down when the three bar associations balked; the Boston judgeship has been conspicuously vacant ever since. Three years later, when Bobby Kennedy was about to resign as U.S. Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows...