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...solicitor general, Griswold will represent the government in cases argued before the Supreme Court. His nomination was aproved by the Senate on October 12 in a unanimous voice vote. He succeeds Thurgood Marshall, who earlier this month became the first Negro Supreme Court Justice...
...developed, Griswold's critique proved to be his valedictory as well. At week's end, President Johnson announced his appointment as the next U.S. Solicitor General. As the nation's top trial lawyer, succeeding Thurgood Marshall, Griswold will shortly be exercising both his dialectical skill and his spirit...
Griswold, who has presided over 21 years of expansion and innovation at the nation's most venerable legal academy, will be nominated to succeed Thurgood Marshall. Today, Marshall will sit as the first Negro Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Rarely was the nominee's race mentioned, though it was largely the point at issue. Instead, Southern critics like South Carolina's Strom Thurmond argued abstractly that Thurgood Marshall's "activist" legal outlook disqualified him for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court...
...papers are full of names, names, names. Heroes of the moment-Thurgood Marshall or the first Negro astronaut-rare played up, but so are ordinary people. The papers are running a lot of stories about Negro servicemen in Viet Nam (few of the papers oppose the U. S. involvement). "They can return with or without the Medal of Honor," says Chicago Defender Reporter Betty Washington. "We don't care. They're our people." When Amsterdam News Education Reporter Sara Slack writes up some child's achievement in school, she often mentions the occupation of the child...