Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Presiding over the court was Chief Justice Earl Warren, who as attorney general of California in 1942 had been vocal in demanding that Japanese-Americans be evacuated from their West Coast homes. On the bench was Justice Abe Fortas, who as wartime Under Secretary of the Interior had protested the mass lockups. Justice Tom Clark, who had been the Justice Department's representative in California a quarter of a century ago and worked with the military in detaining the Japanese-Americans, did not participate in the decision...
...that is so, Lyndon Johnson stands to lose a lot of friends. He has already named one Justice, Abe Fortas, and it does not look as though Tom Clark will leave the only vacancy in the next few years. Time must soon tell on Hugo Black, 81, Earl Warren, 76, William O. Douglas, 68, and John M. Harlan, 67, whose sight is failing. Should Johnson be returned to office next year, he could wind up naming six Supreme Court Justices, the third highest presidential record* after Washington's ten and F.D.R.'s nine. Still attuned to senatorial psychology...
While this lapse--and others--results either from myopia, misinformation, or verbal hysteria, the handling of the actual events of the assassination and the assassin is more disturbing. The author's explanation is smug. The Warren Commission's most controversial theory--that one bullet hit both Kennedy and Gov. Connally--is not challenged. Despite Connally's recollection that the first shot did not hit him, Manchester writes "it had passed through...Connally's back, chest, right wrist, and left thigh, although the Governor, suffering a delayed reaction, was not yet aware of it." Certainly Connally may be wrong and Manchester...
...convention that Warren was ad dressing represented an attempt by one state to bring its administrative machinery up to date. Michigan revised its constitution back in 1963, Connecticut in 1965; 17 other states are now either revising antiquated charters or considering plans to do so in the near future...
King's edicts were defied. He was surrounded by jesters, many of them devastating. Once, at the climax of a dressing down, an alcoholic actor, Warren Hymer, urinated on Cohn's immaculate desk. Hymer was banished from Columbia. The desk was burned...