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Throughout this time various public appeals failed to impress Nixon officialdom with the impropriety of the grand jury's inquest. For its part, the Bok Administration--particularly Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University--worked behind the scenes to aid Popkin's defense. Its approach, condoned by Bok and executed by Steiner, was to enter publicly into the case only when Popkin had exhausted all normal appeals...
There has always been a great deal of mutual suspicion in confrontations between American Indians and American officialdom, but there was also-at one time at least-considerable dignity and pride. That was in the early days of the Republic, when men like the great Seneca leader Red Jacket could lead a delegation of 50 chiefs to Philadelphia (as he did in 1792) to talk about tribal relations with another powerful sovereign, President George Washington...
MOST recent U.S. Presidents have suffered the frustration of issuing orders to the vast federal bureaucracy they supposedly commanded-only to discover that nothing happened. Insulated by layers of officialdom and protected by an almost biological instinct for self-perpetuation, the bureaucratic organism stubbornly resists change. But the votes indicating his huge re-election landslide were barely counted when Richard Nixon took a mighty swipe at this governmental inertia. He demanded that some 2,000 of his politically appointed men in sensitive spots throughout Washington submit their resignations. He would decide who should stay and who should...
Long before Viet Nam, however, Boudin was combating officialdom with what he calls "an 18th century sense of the rights of the individual against the government." It is a sense that he brings to every courtroom. "When I arrived here on the first day," he says, "I found the door shut and locked and ringed with U.S. marshals, and there were the Government lawyers already sitting at the table inside. That's exactly the point that bothers me. It won't have the slightest influence on this case, but the thought that they considered it their courtroom...
...years ago Kung's blunt denial of papal infallibility in his book Infallible? An Inquiry caused him to be assailed by Catholic officialdom (TIME, April 5, 1971). Even his longtime mentor, Progressive Jesuit Karl Rahner, regretfully concluded that Küng must henceforth be dealt with as if he were a liberal Protestant. Now he has published another book, Why Priests? (Doubleday; $5.95), from which the above quotations are drawn. It will confirm Kung's Protestant proclivities in the minds of many...