Word: trumans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep asking for his autograph. The guys at the precinct are forever drilling him about which character in what book is actually who in real life. That is perhaps one reason why Wambaugh this time chose a "factual novel"−real names and all−in the manner of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood...
...reputation, the District of Columbia appeals court is both innovative and liberal-though not so liberal as it used to be before President Nixon appointed three of its members. Its reputation derives from its dominant figure, David L. Bazelon, 64, who was appointed by President Truman 24 years ago and has served as chief judge since 1962. A judicial activist, he is best known for his pioneering opinion in the Durham case of 1954, in which he permitted a plea of not guilty by reason of mental illness, thus modernizing the 19th century M'Naghten rule that a criminal...
John J. Sirica's 23-page decision that the President must surrender his tapes relied heavily on legal and political precedents-on the theory of the Constitution, the trial of Aaron Burr and President Truman's unsuccessful attempt to take over the steel industry. In threading his way through this maze, Sirica carefully took up and rejected virtually all the arguments that the White House lawyers had presented. His verdict, though phrased with the density of legal language, is a historic document. Excerpts...
...McCarthy era's theme that any disagreement with U.S. policy amounts to some kind of treason. Hughes points out, though, that the presidential methods employed to get embroiled in the war were almost exactly like the methods used by earlier Presidents - among them Lincoln, F.D.R. and Harry Truman - to lead the country into what later seemed to be heroic and perhaps necessary confrontations...
Sullivan compiled his memo from FBI records of presidential requests for political help, though no records apparently exist of what the bureau did in response. Omitting the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations, Sullivan concentrates on the two Presidents who made the most extensive political use of the FBI: Roosevelt and Johnson. "Complete and willing cooperation was given to both," he says...