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Contrary to the temper of the times, wrote Federal Judge Leon Yankwich in a 1938 law-review article, Johnson refused to "sanction extreme measures against the defeated South." A flood of congressional resentment finally broke over him in 1868 after he tried to fire Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War and hard-line Reconstructionist, who had become an angry Johnson...
...piece red-coated University of Houston Cougar band blared such anomalous songs as Jesus Christ, Superstar while comely majorettes did a Rockettes routine out front. Even Umpire Jerome Morton got into the act, wearing a modish gray velvet tuxedo and red ruffled shirt that the U.S.L.T.A. would surely never sanction...
...with the sanction of a novelist was going to look into the unspoken impulses of some of his real characters. At the end, if successful, he would have offered a literary hypothesis of a possible Marilyn Monroe who might have lived and fit most of the facts available. If his instincts were good, than future facts discovered about her would not have to war with the character he created...
...repulsive. I understand that wiretapping under court surveillance for specified matters of national security and against organized crime is a tactic that has led to some very good results, which could not have been obtained otherwise. But surreptitious wiretapping for political reasons is offensive to me. I would never sanction listening in on somebody else's personal conversations...
Aside from some such obvious crime, though, any threat from the courts about the President's official conduct seems pale, pragmatically speaking, when compared to the basic sanction of public opinion. That could change. Just before Watergate split wide open, President Nixon was claiming a broad version of Executive privilege and saying, "Perhaps this is the time to have the highest court of this land make a definitive decision with regard to this matter." With the President thus implicitly willing to abide by the result, this may indeed be the time...