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...United States, et al. appeared from their chambers and sat behind the massive mahogany bench. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger shuffled his papers for a long moment and then began to read the decision constituting the sharp est judicial blow to a President since the court rejected Harry Truman's attempt to seize the nation's steel mills...
...alltime low. Created under the 1946 Employment Act in part to provide the President with the best professional advice on reducing the jobless rate, the council has had its share of controversy. For example, Congress became so antagonized by CEA Chief Leon Keyserling's partisan support of Truman Administration policies that President Eisenhower let the council go out of business briefly...
...made the first radical change in the principle of open seas. President Harry S. Truman, worried by World War II's drain on domestic petroleum reserves, declared in 1945 that the nation owned the resources on and under its continental shelf, which extends as much as 700 miles out to sea (off Alaska). He did not claim either the fish in the water or any rights over ship transit. But a few other nations, starting with Chile in 1947, drew no such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while...
...Cherokee Indians who was imprisoned by the state. Jackson reputedly said, "Well, [Chief Justice] John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it." That ruling, however, did not specifically require Jackson to take any action. Other Presidents have bowed to decisions they considered wholly wrong. When Harry Truman's seizure of strikebound steel mills during the Korean War was declared unconstitutional, he yielded to the Supreme Court ruling. "I have no ambition," he said, "to be a dictator...
...Plain Speaking: An Oral Biography of Harry S. Truman, Miller...