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Over the vast, silent crowd on Capitol Hill and through homes and offices across the land, the voice rang sharp & clear: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear . . . [to] preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States-so help me God." Black-robed Chief Justice Vinson stepped back, and the new President of the U.S. stood alone...
...John Nance Garner left his home in Uvalde and took to the hills of southwest Texas to celebrate his 84th birthday with a deer hunt. In Washington, Clark Griffith, owner-president of the Washington Senators, celebrated his 83rd birthday with some 180 friends and fans, including Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick. Griffith's birthday wish: to see his team win another American League pennant (it has won three since he started as manager in 1912) before he retires...
...told that it handles 50 times more oil than his whole country produces, and was handed a chunk of hot synthetic rubber. He was flown from New York to Washington, was taken to the White House for lunch with the President. Among the guests were both Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Harry Vaughan. The King shook hands and smiled, impartially...
Oklahoma's Senator Bob Kerr, Michigan's Governor Mennen Williams, Chief Justice Fred Vinson and half a dozen others were all among the 50-to-1 shots as the convention was called to order...
Then, completely on his own, Vinson lumbered into an extraordinary proposition. Said he: the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. Hence, "our treaties represent not merely,legal obligations, but show congressional recognition that mutual security for the free world is the best security against the threat of aggression on a global scale." His implication: the President's seizure was justified because the international obligations of the U.S. require a maximum flow of steel for its own defense and for its allies...