Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Where is a liberal education considered a waste of time, even when it is dressed up with black-gowned students and white-thatched, Oxford-style dons? See EDUCATION, Ivory Towers in Africa...
ROBERT T. WHITE...
...Fortas failed to mention the dozens of other Justices who had not had intimate dealings with the White House. There are, in fact, no set guidelines for the relations between a Justice and a President. Obviously, as Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen points out, no Chief Executive will appoint an enemy to the bench. Just as obviously, no one expects a Justice to sever old friendships when he takes the oath. On the other hand, even open, formal service to the President-as distinguished from informal advice such as Fortas gave Johnson-has been criticized. Eugene McCarthy has faulted Johnson...
...Debits. It is no secret around the White House that the President earnestly hopes to finish his term with a flourish that would include both a Viet Nam settlement and a broad rapprochement with the Soviet Union, topped off with a visit to Moscow. Honolulu did nothing to further the first wish. Developments in Czechoslovakia did nothing to hasten the other...
...cries out for greatness in the White House. The trouble is not only that so many talented Americans shun politics, but also that no sort of accomplishment in other fields necessarily qualifies a man for the extraordinary demands of the presidency. Solemn reformers will doubtless one day propose a special Presidential Academy with a faculty of hundreds. Enrollment would be for a decade, the curriculum immense and open-ended. With his power over nuclear war or peace, the American President can do no less than strive to be the world's most rational man; a philosophy degree might help...