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...President depend on any specific power?" asked slow-moving Justice Black. "We rely first on the Constitution," said Perlman...
Across the aisle from Davis sat Harry Truman's ablest defender, U.S. Solicitor General (and Acting Attorney General) Philip Benjamin Perlman. In appearance, Perlman, 62, was rough where Davis was smooth. His swallow-tailed coat was ill-fitting, and he wore it awkwardly; his heavy features and unruly hair marked him as one of the homeliest men in Washington. But Phil Perlman is a thoroughgoing lawyer. He began studying law while he was a newspaper reporter in Baltimore, was appointed assistant attorney general and secretary of state of Maryland while in his late 203. Maryland's ex-Senator...
Power & Circumstance. Davis walked back to his seat and mopped his lips with a white linen handkerchief as Phil Perlman lumbered up to the lectern. Perlman plunged directly into his principal defense: the President seized Big Steel because the safety of the U.S. demanded that the plants be kept open. Truman was not usurping powers of Congress; he had invited Congress to pass a law covering the situation the day after the seizure. "The President said he would abide by whatever Congress did," said Perlman. "He made that crystal-clear." Birdlike little Justice Frankfurter squeaked in agitation. "Are you suggesting...
...relying on the war powers?" pressed Douglas. "No, sir," replied Perlman, "we think the power is in the Constitution . . . We say that the sources of power must be considered in the light of the circumstances...
Telegrams from the White House. Phil Perlman's victory grin, and the steel lawyers' open dismay, showed how the tide of the legal battle had apparently shifted in the Administration's favor. But Phil Murray did not volunteer to call off the strike. The day after the circuit court decision, Harry Truman had to move again. At his regular news conference, he insisted that he would abide by the court rulings. He had no ambition to be a dictator, he said. He just wanted to keep the country running. That night he sent off telegrams to Phil...