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...sharpen coordination between the 55,000 U.S. combat soldiers and Marines counterpoised for the enemy offensive in the I Corps Area, General Westmoreland last week dispatched his deputy commander and likely successor in Viet Nam, General Creighton W. ("Abe") Abrams Jr., to Phu Bai to set up a forward command post. Known as "the fightin'est man" in the U.S. Army, the World War II armored-cavalry commander, a West Point classmate ('36) of Westy's, served as the Army's vice chief of staff before arriving in Viet Nam last May. When...
...Justice Abe Fortas observed that "someone might think it was a form of dissent to throw a rock through a window of the White House." Justice John Harlan pointed out that, rather than being superfluous, the ban on burning or destroying the cards might well be seen as a legitimate way for Congress to ensure that registrants carry their cards at all times. Most definite of all was Justice Hugo Black, who has long been known as an uncompromising foe of restrictions on free speech. Card burning did not seem to him to be covered by the First Amendment guarantee...
...Government is the unpaid chairmanship of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees all espionage operations. Yet from this unobtrusive vantage point, Clifford is counted one of the five most powerful men in Washington next to the President. With McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas and Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare John Gardner, he formed part of the small, leakproof ring of Johnson's cronies, privy to the Government's most hermetic secrets and summoned to advise on questions of great moment...
...Justice Abe Fortas read the 37-page opinion that put an end to ten years of frustrating negotiation and deliberation, the smile on the face of a chunky, balding spectator seemed to light up the marbled chamber. For Stuart Thomas Saunders, 58, the man who has already been picked to head the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the court's 8-0* vote was a singular personal triumph...
Presidents are usually safe in quoting Abe Lincoln, and few have made more use of Honest Abe than Lyndon Johnson. But after New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis got through investigating one of L.B.J.'s favorite Lincoln stories last week, Presidents will have to think twice before quoting the Great Emancipator...