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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...
Immediately after the conspiracy convictions in Alabama, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach telephoned the news to Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. The President had taken a special interest in the case and had even announced on television the trio's arrest the day after Mrs. Liuzzo died. He warned the Ku Klux Klan then that he would bring it to heel. After talking to Katzenbach, Johnson said: "The whole nation can take heart from the fact that there are those in the South who believe in justice in racial matters and are determined not to stand for acts...
...would be wrong to say that the snarl is only a pose. Sims actually is a little bit sour on the world. "We might not have organized the Deacons if Katzenbach had sent troops to Bogalusa when they were needed," Sims told Wednesday's press audience. "There's gotta...