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...personal consequences, and of unmeasured significance in its political effects, the story was splashed atop front pages all over the country. Ironically, the man around whom the storm swirled had been the most self-effacing, quiet and publicity-shy member of Johnson's White House team. Quartered in Sherman Adams' old office in the southwest wing of the White House, he was the mysterious, slightly-out-of-focus fellow who seldom had his picture taken or got in the papers but who knew everything that was going on. A whiz at shorthand, he sat in on meetings...
After that, Black became a lonely dissenter, with only Douglas for an ally. Murphy and Rutledge died in 1949, and their successors-Tom C. Clark and Sherman Minton-consistently disagreed with him. Black's wife died in 1951, plunging him into gloom for six years, until he married his secretary (and quickly taught her tennis). Amid all this, Black was alarmed at the Court's bend-over-backward opinions during the McCarthy-era prosecution of real or suspected Communists. One after another, his dissents contained such phrases as "I regret, deeply regret," and "this weird, debilitating interpretation...
...region of the U.S., had a common bond of integrity and accomplishment. As chairman, President Johnson picked Chief Justice Earl Warren, 73. From the U.S. Senate came Georgia's conservative Democrat Richard B. Russell, 66, the leader of the Senate's Southern bloc, and Kentucky's liberal Republican John Sherman Cooper, 63, a former circuit judge and Ambassador to India. From the House came Louisiana's Hale Boggs, 50, the House Democratic whip, and Michigan Republican Gerald Ford, 51, a Yale Law School graduate and an armed-services expert who is one of the most influential of all Republican Congressmen...
...SHERMAN S. HOLLANDER...
...accused him of "attempting to get victory through appeal to the white backlash." Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott has endorsed Barry, but never mentions him by name in a campaign speech. Other Senators who have thus far remained significantly silent about Goldwater include Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper and California's Tom Kuchel...