Could Arthur Goldberg Have Had Chief Justiceship?

Could Arthur Goldberg have had the chief justiceship had it
not been for a move by President-elect Richard Nixon that stymied
it? The story as related by Drew Pearson follows:
Relations between the President
and President-elect, hitherto more which affect the country during
cordial than between any other in- this interim period.
coming and outgoing Presidents,
No President in half a century
were disrupted when Nixon moved has been more cooperative toward
in on the question of continuing the new administration, even or-
Chief Justice Earl Warren without dering 17 State Department rooms
any consultation whatsoever with placed at Nixon's disposal, 48
Johnson.
hours after the election — rooms
Nixon's move had the earmarks which are still largely unoccupied.
of a quick double-play to block
Because of this there is some
the interim appointment of former belief that Nixon called the chief
Justice Arthur Goldburg as chief justice deliberately in order to
justice.
head off the President's plan to
President Johnson has on his
appoint former Justice Arthur
desk right now the resignation
Goldberg as Chief Justice.
of Chief Justice Warren subject
Mr. Johnson had been consider-
to action at any time. He can
ing this idea ever since his nom-
and still may act en it right up
ination of Justice Abe Fortas to be
until neon of Jan. 20.
chief justice was turned down by
And he had been debating such the Senate.
action when out of the clear
He was not unmindful of the
blue, the President-elect phoned fact that as early as last July,
Chief Justice Warren asking him Chief Justice Warren, when asked
to remain as head of the court by the President whom should be
until June.
appoint as his successor, at first
Obviously it was not Nixon's declined to propose a succes-
prerogative to do this and, fur- sor, later had discreetly pointed
thermore, both protocol and cour- out that the Middle West had no
tesy required him to call the representation on the court and
President in advance of his re- that former Justice Arthur Gold-
quest to Warren. Johnson has berg; who comes from Chicago,
leaned over backward to clear would make a great chief.
with Nixon all questions of policy
Meanwhile several high-rank-
ing Republicans had urged
Nixon to go along with Gold-

Dover Issues Da Vinci
and Botticelli Drawings

A leading series of Italian art
books, I Grandi Maestri del Di-
segno ("The Great Masters of
Drawing") is being published for
the first time in America by Dover
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I The first two volumes in the
series, "Drawings by Leonardo
da Vinci" selected by "Giorgo
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Three more volumes, "Drawings
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One might well question where
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of his life . . ."
"Drawings by Leonardo da
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"Drawings by Botticelii" is es-
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berg's appointment, including
former Attorney General Her-
bert Brownell and Max rasher
of Detroit, one of the biggest
money raisers for the Nixon
campaign.
It was against this background
that the President-elect put in his
private can to Chief Justice War-
ren.
The chief justice, who has been
on the opposite sides of the Re-
publican fence from Nixon, was
caught by surprise. Nixon had
sabotaged Warren's bid for the
Presidency in 1952 att the Chicago
convention. The two have not been
cordial since.
So when the chief justice got
the call from the President-elect
asking him both to administer the
oath of office and also continue
until June, he acquiesced without
realizing that it was President
Johnson, not Nixon, who still had
the decision to accept his resigna-
tion at any time up to Jan. 20.
Nor did the Chief Justice real-
ize that Arthur Goldberg, the man
he very much wanted to be his
successor, was on the verge of
getting an interim appointment as
chief justice.
(Senator Stphen M. Young of
Ohio severly condemmed Presi-
dent-elect Nixon, Tuesday, accus-
appointment by Johnson as Chief
appointbent of Johnson as Chief
Justice.)

18—Friday, December 13, 1968

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Spoken Arts Grant to Hebrew U.

Foreign Minister Abba Eban of Israel (left) meets with Dr.
Arthur Luce Klein, president of Spoken Arts, Inc., at the Plaza Hotel
in New York, to accept a grant from the company to Hebrew Univer-
sity in Jerusalem. The grant is to be used for the purchase of books
or as fees for visiting American lecturers on the subject of American
literature "so that a greater understanding can develop between our
two countries." The album Eban is admiring is one of two released
by Spoken Arts of Eban's addresses before the United Nations on
June 6 and June 19,1967, at the time of the lightning Six-Day War.
Eban's voice is also heard on the Spoken Arts label "Abba Eban Reads
the Psalms and Ecclesiastes." The grant to Hebrew University was set
aside from the sales of Eban's records.

Homer in Illinois

Henry Homer, born in 1878, was a
grandson of one of the Jewish pioneers
of Chicago. In 1914, Horner gave up a
successful private law practice to become

judge of the Cook County Probate Court.
He served as presiding judge of the busi-
est court in the world until 1932. In the
depths of the Great Depression, Horner
stepped out of political obscurity into the
limelight. He campaigned for, and won
the Democratic nomination for gover-
nor. In the subsequent election, Illinois
gave Horner a tremendous majority,
100,000 more votes than Franklin D.
Roosevelt. It was the first time in nearly
a generation that normally Republican
Illinois had gone Democratic.
During his first term, Homer devoted
himself to sponsoring progressive legis-

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lation on behalf of the people of his state.
He also instituted economies in govern-
ment and political reforms that incurred
the active hostility of the Democratic
machine. Nevertheless he was renomi-
nated and re-elected to a second four-
year term in 1936. He died in office in
1940.
Henry Homer's dedication to his fel-
low men is, perhaps, best summed up by
these lines from the inscription on his
monument in Chicago's Grant Park: "...
governor of his state in an hour when
doubt and fear gripped the nation, he
restored faith in the American way of
life ... Like Abraham Lincoln, to whom
he devoted a lifetime of study, he gave
himself as freely to the obscure and helps
less as to the strong and wise."

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