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...Senate Judiciary Committee does not often enliven its deliberations with erotica. The opportunity arose, improbably enough, during its hearings on the nomination of Associate Justice Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States...
...answer back. In his only public comment, he noted, only half-facetiously, that his "anger and outraged silence" might cause ulcers. The ulcers are likely to proliferate when the Senate reconvenes. All but inconceivable as it seemed a few weeks ago, it is now at least a possibility that Abe Fortas will be the first Chief Justice-designate since 1795 to be denied his seat...
...congressional opponents of the Supreme Court, it was a moment of high satisfaction. Never before had a Chief Justice-designate been grilled by a Senate committee. Never before had there been so dramatic an opportunity to voice criticism of the Warren court. For Abe Fortas, the confrontation must have been an occasion of particular pain. After four days of hearings before James Eastland's Senate Judiciary Committee, it was plain that the most serious impediment to his confirmation as 15th Chief Justice of the United States may prove to be his friendship with Lyndon Johnson...
Nixon is still capable of little bloopers. He was too quick, for instance, to criticize Abe Fortas' appointment as Chief Justice. Nixon, who won fewer than 1% of the Jewish votes in a recent Michigan survey (v. 20% for Rocky), thereby threatened to sap his appeal to that group even further. His attempts at small talk fall flat. On a Portland television program, he told listeners his secret for staying trim. "I eat proteins," he said. "I eat a lot of cheese. Cottage cheese. I eat cottage cheese until it runs out my ears. And one thing I do that...
...President's old friends, Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, objects to the lame-duck label. During Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on Johnson's Supreme Court nominations of Abe Fortas and Homer Thornberry, Dirksen fulminated: "I find that term lame duck as applied to the President of the U.S. an entirely improper and offensive term...