Word: truman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Touch of Coyness. Tom Clark's paternal pride was all the deeper because he himself spent twelve years in the Justice Department - the last four as Attorney General - before Harry Truman appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1949. With his father at Justice, young Ramsey Clark got his first exposure to the department at the age of nine. The rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.), easy-mannered Ramsey served a hitch in the Marine Corps at the end of World War II, then studied at the University of Texas and at Chicago. Diligent, if not brilliant...
Swing Voter. When Clark's nomination reached the Senate, it was unanimously and swiftly confirmed. The only regrets aired on Capitol Hill, in fact, were over the elder Clark's impending departure from the Supreme Court -probably when the current term ends in June. The last of Truman's four appointees, Tom Clark earned a reputation over the years as the author of some of the court's most lucid and precise opinions (including the controversial 1963 school-prayer decision). Though known as a judicial conservative, he shunned the doctrinaire stances of some of his colleagues...
...delighted partisan audiences with his swinging attacks on Johnson. The Administration's domestic programs, he said, resembled a "20-mule team harnessed at night by a blind, one-armed idiot." There was the New Deal of Franklin Roosevelt, the Fair Deal of Harry Truman, and now the "ordeal" of Lyndon Johnson. He also produced a passable caption for a future Romney administration. "A new generation of progress," he said, "is forming up on the horizon." As usual, Romney laced his talk with moral homilies, and even his discussion of public responsibility carried a churchly ring. He told an Elks...
Instant Delphi. He masked up for Truman Capote's ball, has escorted Jacqueline Kennedy to the movies, helped Norman Mailer celebrate the opening of his play, The Deer Park. "Any party with Arthur Schlesinger and me in it," proclaims perpetual Starlet Monique Van Vooren, "can't be a failure." True enough and, like the Bell Telephone Hour, Schlesinger now hits all notes from classical to pop-with not a note dropped or a cadenza slighted along...
...government spending and a mild austerity program that has allowed him to build a modest foreign currency reserve. Realizing the value of the tourist dollar, he has promoted a series of resort hotels from Tangier to Marrakesh, turned Morocco into the haunting ground of such jet-set types as Truman Capote and Princess Lee Radziwill. Last year 700,000 tourists-nearly twice as many as in 1965-converged on Morocco...