Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another key post for which Nixon wanted a man he knew intimately was that of Attorney General. He settled on John Mitchell, the dour-looking lawyer whom Nixon once called "the heavyweight" because of his acumen and administrative talents. Mitchell had sworn vehemently to anyone who would listen that he would take no post in the Administration. Nixon surprised many who remembered his 1960 campaign by heeding most of his manager...
There is no evidence of any kind that Turner or any of his men lusted for white women. From the visitations he described and the rhetoric he used, even through the white lawyer who took down the confessions, one can recognize Turner as a black Spiritualist minister...
...Democrats hold no statewide offices (from U.S. Senator down) and are in a minority in both houses of the legislature. "In 1968 the conservatives kept telling us not to upset the applecart--Johnson would lose and we would be defeated on the state level," said Richard Wilks, a Pheonix lawyer who heads the Arizona NDC. "Well, after November, there's just no applecart left." The conservatives are weak in Arizona and are searching for attractive candidates for lower offices, which the new liberals can have almost for the asking if they appear to be winners...
Lowenstein's plan to try to dump President Johnson was received as the mad plan of a New York professor-lawyer during the fall of 1967; he is now a Congressman from Long Island whom most "humanist liberals" and experienced political observers like David Halberstam regard as a responsible national leader...
Kunstler calls himself a "people's lawyer," and in court he plays the part for all it is worth, occasionally risking contempt of court. Defending nine Catholic draft-record burners in Baltimore, Kunstler advised the jury to ignore the judge's charge to them. Protesting the high bail for another Catholic group charged with the same crime in Milwaukee, Kunstler attacked the judge: "I don't think Your Honor will make his career on the bench with heavy bail. It makes the law look ridiculous...