Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first act, Lyndon marched in with Sargent Shriver and Jack Hood Vaughn, his nominee to succeed Shriver as head of the Peace Corps (see following story). That ceremony was swiftly followed-all in the White House-by Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's resume of Johnson-proposed constitutional amendments, Robert McNamara's rundown of defense expenditures, a discussion of tax revision by Treasury Secretary Fowler, and brief appearances by House Speaker McCormack, Senate Majority Leader Mansfield and Vice President Humphrey...
Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach himself was both defendant and defense counsel. The court allotted eight hours-longest in memory-for oral arguments. Even Chief Justice Earl Warren was moved to note that the outcome of South Carolina v. Nicholas deB. Katzenbach would have "wide and profound implications in the life of our nation...
...August, which outlawed literacy tests and other registration practices used by Southern states to keep Negroes off the voting rolls. Joining South Carolina in attacking the law were five sister states also directly affected by the bill-Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Virginia. To lend moral support to Katzenbach and the Federal Government, 20 other states were represented as amid curiae...
...convicted felons. Georgia's Deputy Assistant Attorney General E. Freeman Leverett admitted that he was "ashamed" of the South's history of voter discrimination, adding: "But Congress cannot, in order to appease a mob in the streets, invoke unconstitutional means to achieve a constitutional end." Meanwhile, Defendant Katzenbach, who had been accompanied to court by Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall and Assistant Attorney General John Doar, sat quietly awaiting his turn...
...came next day. Katzenbach made his point swiftly. "The position of the United States Government in this case can be very simply stated," he began. "Section 2 of the 15th Amendment gives to Congress the right to enforce Section 1 by 'appropriate legislation.' We contend this act was appropriate legislation. It is well adapted, and it operates fairly and reasonably to achieve an objective which is within the power of Congress to achieve." He pointed out that Southern states, where racial segregation is the rule, had thus long violated the 14th Amendment, yet now sought...