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...Kennedys have come to symbolize to many the pursuit of excellence and the standard of ability as the criterion for advancement. It is therefore doubly disillusioning, disheartening and disgusting for them to advocate Morrissey for a federal judgeship...
...Frank Morrissey's closest cronies would not claim that he is a learned jurist or even a seasoned trial lawyer...
...subtle merits and elusive memo ries of Francis Xavier Morrissey, 55, were scrutinized for nine hours by Senate Judiciary Committee members, who then approved President Johnson's nominee for the $30,000-a-year lifetime judgeship (TIME, Oct. 8). There were, of course, turgid testimonials arranged by Morrissey's backers. Anticipating opposition in Senate subcommittee hearings, they put on ten witnesses and adduced an encomium from Richard Cardinal Gushing, who in 1956 christened Morrissey's tenth baby, Richard Gushing, in the first such ceremony ever televised...
Teddy Kennedy, at whose family's behest Morrissey was made a Boston municipal justice in 1958, avowed that the nominee's "qualities of character are of the highest order." Added House Speaker John McCormack: "I like a man who is loyal. What's wrong with rewarding your friends?" The most memorable characterization was offered by Walter McLaughlin, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, which did an about-face and decided to support Morrissey after twice opposing his nomination. "His educational background," said McLaughlin, "has been pilloried from post to post...
Unpleasant Word. The American Bar Association sent three officials to pillory some more. They pointed to conspicuous gaps in Morrissey's background as lawyer and judge. Concluded Bernard Segal, former chairman of the A.B.A.'s federal judiciary committee: "We have not had any case in which those factors are so lacking as in the case of Judge Morrissey...