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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graceful, spacious mansion stands imposingly just off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue in the select neighborhood of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It bears a most impressive title: The Library of Presidential Papers. Yet it is a library without a librarian. About the only original presidential document there is a John F. Kennedy letter valued at $175 and apparently signed by his secretary. The building also boasts a presidential bedroom in which no President has ever slept or seems likely even to visit. The organization's letterhead carries a seal so similar to that of the President...
...besides limiting the lawyers' rights to peremptory challenges, might yield only one black per jury, plus absurd demands that juries precisely reflect all other groups-Jews, Chinese, Indians, Catholics and so on. Some reformers urge another method: racial quotas. They might be held unconstitutional if applied to jury selection, and almost certainly would be unwise. White jury commissioners could still control the system, and perhaps select only compliant or ultraconservative blacks. They might be harsher on black defendants than white jurors would...
...recruiter-who identified himself as Thomas Shirhal-said that IDA "helps the Defense Department select among competing systems" to decide which system will operate most effectively so that average people...
Unethical? Apparently not. Senator John Stennis, chairman of the Senate's Select Committee on Standards and Conduct, gave Murphy's arrangement his approval without even referring the matter to the members. Many men in Congress, after all, have outside sources of income, particularly from the practice of law. Still, few have such a direct connection, and probably no other legislator is the employee of a company whose chairman, like Technicolor's Patrick Frawley Jr., is a militant advocate of right-wing causes...
While Southern politicians gloated, Northern liberals were in total confusion. Oregon's Representative Edith Green, chairman of the House Select Subcommittee on Education, seemed to have given up on integration. "We simply cannot afford to let our classrooms turn into battlefields," she said. "We really have to go back to quality education and put our emphasis on that." Hubert Humphrey, on the other hand, charged that the Nixon Administration had "sold out" black Americans and was in "full retreat on the civil rights front." Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff, whose Senate speech denouncing "rampant racism" and "monumental hypocrisy...