Word: katzenbachs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
Bravery, Nobility, Dignity. From the plane, Johnson phoned Bobby Kennedy in Washington, and they decided that the presidential oath of office should be administered at Dallas' Love Field. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach dictated the oath to a secretary aboard the plane. Dallas Judge Sarah Hughes, who was to administer the oath, arrived, and Lyndon recalled: "A few minutes later Mrs. Kennedy and the President's coffin arrived. Mrs. Johnson and I spoke to her. We tried to comfort her, but our words seemed inadequate. About a half-hour later, I asked someone to find...
That still leaves the Attorney General's job open. If Johnson does not name Acting Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, a Bobby protege, to the permanent job, the most likely man is Houston Lawyer Leon Jaworski, 59, a longtime Lyndon...