Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chief Justice was also worried, according to friends, that Richard Nixon, a man he heartily dislikes, would be elected President in November and fill the spot with a conservative.* Several Republican Senators, similarly convinced that Nixon would win in the fall, insisted that Johnson permit the next President to pick his own Chief Justice. But Johnson has tradition firmly on his side-John Adams appointed John Marshall Chief Justice a month before leaving office-and he will almost certainly ignore their demand. Immediate speculation as to his choice centered on two Associate Justices: Abe Fortas, Johnson's close friend...
...August, Democratic and Republican leaders decide that all the talk about new politics and the need for change has made all the principal contenders obsolete. In Miami Beach, the Republicans nominate Jacob Javits and Edward Brooke. In Chicago, the Democrats pick Abe Fortas and Carl Stokes. The big issue in the ensuing campaign is unrest in the suburbs...
...have the pick of my brother's harem." Lucille Ball to Raymond Burr in The Magic Carpet...
...being badly compromised. Said Black: "It requires no prophet to foresee that on the argument used to support this law others could be upheld providing for funds to buy property on which to erect religious school buildings, to pay the salaries of religious school teachers, and finally to pick up all the bills for religious schools. I still subscribe to the belief that tax-raised funds cannot constitutionally be used to support religious schools, even to the extent of one penny...
...what had happened. Newsday Columnist Flora Lewis suggested that the violence in American life cannot be separated so easily from American idealism, from the American dream. She quoted the wife of a U.S. diplomat at the U.N.: "America is a place where people really can do something if they pick themselves up and try. It's the beauty and the danger all at once. I saw on TV the women of Dearborn, Mich., the same women who had organized for all sorts of community good works, and now they were on the police shooting range learning...