Word: morrisseys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brink -and chose defeat. Though virtually none of his colleagues knew of his decision in advance, he notified President Johnson of his switch the night before the Senate showdown. He also tipped off Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, whose forces had become reasonably confident that they could scuttle Morrissey's nomination. After crossing the Senate floor to give Teddy an avuncular handclasp, old Ev rumbled: "It takes something for a young man to subdue his pride. It doesn't bother an old bastard like me. But in a young man it takes courage...
...advised efforts for an ill-equipped judicial nominee may be largely forgotten-while his retreat from the brink of embarrassment will be warmly remembered as an act of high courage. Outside the Senate, which is not likely to confine Teddy Kennedy's ambitions indefinitely, the Morrissey affair may be remembered as a negative entry in the record book of a clan that made great capital of the pursuit of excellence...
Before the furor over Frank Morrissey's nomination for a federal judgeship died down last week (see THE NATION), it had ricocheted through headlines and editorials across the country. Yet relatively few people realized that the major factor in bringing the Morrissey case to a head was one newspaper's display of the kind of dogged, investigative journalism that is rare these days in the U.S. press. The paper is the Boston Globe, which zealously carried on a crusade to discover everything possible about the man it thought unfit for high judicial office...
...Personal Attack. With that credo, the Globe set vigorously to work when it learned of President Kennedy's intention to nominate Morrissey, his father's longtime friend, to the federal bench. After the Globe's Washington bureau dug up the details on Morrissey's three applications to the Massachusetts Bar, other papers were quick to pick up the story. Soon after that, Jack Kennedy quietly dropped the whole idea, and the story died for two years...
Then, last year, the rumor surfaced again: this time it was President Johnson who was planning to nominate Morrissey. The Globe carefully tracked the hearsay, finally confirmed it in March through a tip from inside Teddy Kennedy's office. Swinging back to its crusade, the Globe was first to announce that Morrissey was being pushed by Teddy, first to announce that the FBI was running a check on him. Editor Winship ordered a concerted effort to uncover every pertinent piece of information available on Morrissey. "This is not a personal vendetta," he explained. "We just think Morrissey...