Word: mazo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minutes after being introduced to Mazo, Warren attacked a passage of the book that opened up one of the old sores of California Republicanism: how Nixon won his 1950 Senate race without ever being endorsed by name by Republican Warren, then California's Governor. Author Mazo, complained the Chief Justice, was just trying to "promote the presidential candidacy of Nixon ... I don't care what you write about Nixon as long as you don't try to build him up over my body...
...during the 20-minute, standing-up conversation, Warren held clenched fists before him, handcuffed-style, said: "Look, I'm handcuffed, really handcuffed." As Chief Justice, he explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full...
Host Barnet Nover, Denver Postman and old Washington hand, finally succeeded in moving Warren and Mazo to a corner of the room, where they talked for nearly an hour. Finally, Earl Warren put his hand on Earl Maze's shoulder and said, "Come see me sometime to talk things over," and left...
Blackball. Nixon's view of the rift, according to Mazo: "We are not unfriendly. We are two individuals going our own ways." Last week the Chicago Tribune's Walter Trohan added another note. According to the Tribune, Chief Justice Warren in 1957 blackballed an invitation to Vice President Nixon from the American Bar Association to attend the celebrated London meeting at which more than 3,000 U.S. and British lawyers examined the basis of the common law (TIME, Aug. 5, 1957). Said Warren, according to the Tribune, to David Maxwell, then president of the A.B.A...
RICHARD NIXON: A POLITICAL AND PERSONAL PORTRAIT (309 pp.)-Earl Mazo -Harper...