Word: katzenbachs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach's long ordeal was over. Precisely 147 days after Katzenbach, 43, became the U.S.'s Acting Attorney General, a stand-in for Bobby Kennedy, he received a call asking him and his wife Lydia to have dinner at the White House. President Johnson arose from his sickbed and, wearing pajamas and a robe, supped with Lady Bird and the Katzenbachs in the family quarters, told Katzenbach that next day he would name him Attorney General for real...
...major Cabinet changes, at least for the present, although Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, HEW's Boss Anthony Celebrezze, and CIA Director John McCone all may resign soon. Nor is Johnson rushing to fill the vacancy left by Bobby Kennedy, though the post may well go eventually to Nicholas Katzenbach, who is now Acting Attorney General...
...have been rationalized in colonial America where limited precedents existed. However, precedents concerning procedure for admitting evidence are numerous today. Already there are misgivings about the judge who will convene the Grand Jury in this case. This is the same judge who threatened to jail acting attorney general Katzenbach for contempt. Judge Cox is the one who refered to a gathering of Negroes on "Freedom Day" as a "bunch of chimpanzees...
...courage. At Ole Miss with Chief U.S. Marshall McShane, when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes and trigger-itchy cops in Jackson, Miss., in 1963. Walking alone between the combatants, he roared: "My name is John Doar...
Owen asked for a lunch break, put in a phone call to Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach in Washington, then returned to the courtroom and made a strategic-and temporary-surrender. "In view of the fact that we feel the ruling is wrong," said Owen to Commissioner Carter, "we will simply not produce any more evidence on any of the cases." With that, Miss Carter dismissed the charges and freed the defendants...