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...Whizzer White? A vacancy on the Supreme Court should be filled by the best available legal mind in the U.S.- the current Attorney General. I just can't stand a President who isn't loyal to his relatives and friends...
NAMED at 44 as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, Byron Raymond ("Whizzer") White has a past that would make Frank Merriwell look like a drudge. It was with an eye to that record that President Kennedy said, in announcing White's appointment: "He has excelled in everything he has attempted -and I know that he will excel on the highest court in the land." White grew up in Wellington, a farm supply center of 550 people in northern Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five...
Discovering the best is the job of Bobby Kennedy and his deputy, Colorado's ex-All America Halfback Byron ("Whizzer") White. From Senators, Congressmen, judges, lawyers and party wheel horses, the Justice Department has so far received more than 1,300 nominations for the vacant judgeships. Some of the names were easily scratched off the list: a handful of Democratic bigwigs-including California's Governor Pat Brown-foolishly suggested their brothers and cousins. (One politician, whose relative was summarily turned down, taunted Kennedy with the comment: "Your brother got you your job." Bobby's answer: "Yeah...
...fight by selecting Yarborough-approved candidates for two unfilled posts in Texas' southern and western districts, Johnson men for two available judgeships in the northern district. Another troublesome appointment is a new district judgeship in eastern Colorado. Democratic Senator John Carroll has bridled at the personal favorite of Whizzer White, and made his dissatisfaction known by suggesting no fewer than 21 alternative choices...
Despite the party coloration of its choices, the Administration insists that political factors will not get in the way of selecting good men for vital jobs. "It is a political process by which judges are selected," explains Whizzer White. "The President nominates them. The Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on them. The Senate confirms them. But this is a political process in the broad sense, not in any odious sense. This is our system of government...