Word: warren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CONVERSATION WITH EARL WARREN (NET, 9-10 p.m.). An interview with the former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court held just before he announced his retirement last June...
Richard Nixon proudly unveiled his new Chief Justice, Warren Burger, in an East Room spectacular last May attended by live television cameras and the highest ranks of his Administration. There was no such ceremonial fuss last week as he named his first Associate Justice to the Supreme Court. In the press room at Laguna Beach, 17 miles from the western White House at San Clemente, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler almost perfunctorily announced that Nixon had appointed South Carolina's Clement Furman Haynsworth, chief judge of the Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, to fill the seat vacated...
...make the law." A desire for social innovation has seldom manifested itself in his legal judgments, and he seems an apt choice to carry out what Nixon envisions as a redefinition of the Supreme Court's role, steering it away from the activism of the Earl Warren court...
...white-haired gentleman greeting convention delegates in Dallas last week acted like a political candidate. Warren Burger, 61, joked with lawyers from all over the U.S.; he signed autographs, beamed for photographers and made five speeches in four days. One morning at a prayer breakfast, the new Chief Justice of the U.S. was moved by the singing of a Baptist youth choir. "How could anyone really worry about the young people of America," said Burger, "after witnessing what we have this morning...
Members of the American Bar Association were flattered by Burger's interest. Earl Warren had boycotted A.B.A. conventions for ten of his last years as Chief Justice because of the intemperate criticism that some bar leaders had leveled at his court. Only last year, after announcing his retirement, did Warren appear...