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...also became the particular protege of family friend and fellow Texan Sam Rayburn, who got President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appoint Johnson director of the National Youth Administration for Texas. Lyndon used his position as a springboard to a successful campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives. He was then 29, and except for seven months in the Navy, he has held national elective office ever since...
After the war, White became a lawyer, a judge, a U.S. Senator, an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller died in 1910, the other Associate Justices paid White a magnificent tribute: they petitioned President Taft to appoint him to head the court. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was on the court at that time, had been wounded five times while serving in the Union forces, said Warren. Yet Holmes and White formed "an abiding friendship." In 1915, in Guinn v. U.S., the White court considered an Oklahoma amendment that discriminated against Negroes by requiring...
Another revelation: while he was still in Europe as commander of SHAPE, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden "expressed the hope that [if I should be elected] I might appoint someone other than Dulles" as U.S. Secretary of State. "I made no reply," he writes, "except to say that I knew of no other American so well qualified as Foster to take over the duties of that particular office...
Fallen Timbers. The figure in the background who dominated them all was Washington. As President under the new Constitution, he used the strengthened powers of the national government to prevent war with Britain while the settlements grew, to negotiate the eventual British evacuation of the lakes posts, and to appoint "Mad Anthony" Wayne to command a federal army to take the field against the Indians...
...Baptist dispute began in 1845 with a quarrel between Northern and Southern churches over whether Scripture warranted a central missionary organization, hardened into a permanent breach when Northerners declared that they would not appoint any missionary who was a slaveholder. Since the Civil War, the racial issue has become less important; most Southern Baptists remain segregationists, and American Baptists have probably done less for integration than any other major Northern Protestant church. The main barriers to union are matters of church practice that grew up during the schism...