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There was C. C. Cambreleng, "the crony of Van Buren"; Roger B. ("Dred Scott") Taney, "the spearhead of radicalism in the new cabinet" ("a tall sharp-faced man, with irregular yellow teeth, generally clamped on a long black cigar, he made a bad first impression," but his reasoning and his conviction won him friends). There was Amos Kendall, the Harry Hopkins of the age ("his chronic bad health may have created a special bond with the President, and Jackson soon began to rely on Kendall for aid in writing his messages. . . . Gradually, Kendall's supreme skill in interpreting, verbalizing...
Noteworthy fact about the swap: in their new setting in the Supreme Court room, Carpenter's emancipators looked directly across the room at the bust of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who handed down the anti-Negro Dred Scott decision...
...Presidents saw red in the rising sun of the Court. Andrew Jackson was one. "John Marshall has made his decision," he bellowed when the Court made Indians Government wards, "now let him enforce it!" Abraham Lincoln, whose election was due in no small part to Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's pro-slavery decision against old Dred Scott, ordered an Army fort commander to ignore a writ of habeas corpus issued by Chief Justice Taney. U. S. Grant packed the Court, got a 4-3 unfavorable decision reversed...
...ranked 32,* arranged with NBC a 12,000-mile Odyssey to broadcast from their homes, workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico whose truculence toward the British got Key in the prison-ship predicament that inspired his deathless ditty...
...contrary is well established. What are the allowable limits of military discretion, and whether or not they have been overstepped in a particular case, are judicial questions." He then quotes Chief Justicee Taney, "It is the emergency that gives the right, and the emergency must be shown to exist before the taking can be justified...