Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came." No one had much to say about his political career, though Toastmaster Art Linkletter, an old friend, observed: "I've known him since he was a young Congressman, and now look at him today. He's General Eisenhower's grandson's father-in-law...
...consideration about the volunteer army is that it could eventually become the only orderly way to raise armed forces. The draft, though it will prevail by law at least through 1971, is under growing attack. In the mid-'50s, most military-age men eventually got drafted, and the inequities of exempting the remainder were not flagrant. Now, despite Viet Nam, military draft needs are dropping, partly because in 1966 Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara started a "project 100,000," which slightly lowered mental and physical standards and drew 70,000 unanticipated volunteers into the forces. Meanwhile, the pool...
Cast suddenly on the diplomatic defensive, Premier Eshkol said in Jerusalem that "we could not but exercise our right of self-defense. Any tourist knows where to find the terrorist organization in Beirut. International law clearly says that a country that harbors aggressors is an aggressor...
...Walker found himself on his own at 14. He served aboard the battleship Kentucky in World War I, later finished his schooling while holding down part-time jobs, one as an oil-field roustabout and another as a hat-check boy in a dance hall. After earning undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Southern California, he worked first for the state, mainly investigating the licensing of stock brokers, and later for the Los Angeles County district attorney. He practiced law on his own for seven years. Then, in 1953, Governor Earl Warren appointed him to the bench...
Deeply religious, Walker is a member of the national executive committee of the Episcopal Church, a denomination that opposes capital punishment as a matter of principle. "I believe in the separation of church and state, and I intend to make my rulings by the law," Walker said in 1967 at a two-week hearing on the death penalty in California. The death penalty, he ruled, does not violate the Constitution...