Word: senatore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator McGovern is wind-blown all right. Across the autumn-gold corn stalks of a roadside field in this rural county, a billboard proclaims: "McGOVERN--A COURAGEOUS PRAIRIE STATESMAN." And there is McGovern, hair tousled, walking into the wind.
The Americans for Democratic Action, which had been one of the earliest and most enthusiastic backers of Senator Eugene McCarthy's bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination, endorsed Vice-President Humphrey Saturday as the "best candidate" for the Presidency.
Some of the charges levied against Fortas--his alleged involvement with a Communist-dominated legal group in the early thirties, his vote to exclude a few cheap skin flicks from classification as hard-core pornography, and the contention that his booklet on civil disobedience "condoned lawlessness"--were clearly distorted, irrelevant...
Accusations of cronyism in the appointments were pooh-poohed by everyone from the Times to Senator Everett Dirksen ("The President surely wouldn't go out looking for enemies to put on the court, now would he?"). But, the Times itself reported, after the junior justice had already been on the...
If anything, Thornberry's case is more susceptible to charges of cronyism than Fortas's. In 1948, when Johnson joined the Senate, Thornberry became Congressman in Johnson's place. For fifteen years, until he retired to accept a District Judgeship in late 1963, Thornberry held the central Texas seat, and...