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Within a year, Warren's career took a sudden, decisive turn. In September 1953 Chief Justice Fred Vinson died. President Eisenhower was under pressure to name a successor before the court convened in October. As Associate Justice William O. Douglas tells it, Vice President Nixon and Senator William Knowland went to Ike and urged him to choose Warren as a means of breaking his grip on California politics. In any case, Warren met basic requirements. He was a Republican and his philosophy and common sense "pleased" Eisenhower. Later, dismayed that Warren turned out to be a controversial participant rather...
Curbing Rancor. Although some of his fellow justices carped about Warren's lack of legal scholarship, he transformed the sometimes fractious atmosphere of the Vinson Court by a mixture of charm, tact and candor. One law clerk, quoted in Leo Katcher's Warren biography, said: "What was lacking was a spirit of 'collegiality.' . . . Warren's job was to try to bring personalities together, not beliefs. He couldn't ask anyone to abandon a deeply held belief, but to accept opposition without rancor...
...Bates. Through the years, he showed a talent for absorbing a mass of complex information literally overnight and giving a masterly performance in court the next morning. He became a senior partner in 1951. Today Fulbright, Crocker & Jaworski ranks second only to John Connally's law firm of Vinson, Elkins, Searls, Connally & Smith in power and prestige in Texas. In 1971 Jaworski was honored when he was selected president of the American Bar Association...
...Mercer University, where he appeared to help observe both the 100th anniversary of the law school and the 90th birthday of former Congressman Carl Vinson, a small group of protesters detracted little from the President's rousing reception. Nixon's only reference to his troubles was a typical football analogy: "I followed the Falcons, and I guess you would call them the comeback team of 1973," he said. "They lost their first three and they have won their last six. I ought to have a talk with Norm Van Brocklin [the Atlanta Falcons coach] and find...
...GEORGIA. Democrat Sam Nunn, 34, a grandnephew of Carl Vinson, who served for 50 years in the House, hopes to win a Georgia Senate seat himself by rekindling ancient urban-rural differences. Whether Nunn, a farmer, lawyer, state legislator and ex-basketball star from middle Georgia, can succeed may depend partly on the popularity of Richard Nixon among traditional rural Democrats and on a well-mounted G.O.P. campaign...