Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney-General-Designate: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session, on Robert F. Kennedy, Attorney-General-Designate. January 13, 1961U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961 - 39 pages |
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Page 29 - The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny ; but content myself with wishing — that I may be one of those whose follies cease with their youth ; and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 29 - Sir, the atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number, who are ignorant in spite of experience.
Page 38 - In 1949 the President's Committee on Civil Rights recommended a permanent Commission on Civil Rights. The new Democratic Administration will broaden the scope and strengthen the powers of the present commission and make it permanent. Its functions will be to provide assistance to communities, industries, or individuals in the implementation of Constitutional rights in education, housing, employment, transportation, and the administration of justice. In addition, the Democratic Administration will...
Page 34 - ... problems of transition. For this and for the protection of all other Constitutional rights of Americans, the Attorney General should be empowered and directed to file civil injunction suits in Federal courts to prevent the denial of any civil right on grounds of race, creed, or color.
Page 15 - ... business or profession; is that a brief statement of the conclusions reached? Mr. McCoNE. The conclusion is expressed in one paragraph and I could read it. Then I would file the document with the committee for the record : It is the conclusion of this memorandum that as a matter of law Mr. McCone may serve as Chairman of the Commission without being required to divest himself of his stock interests. However, if Commission action of any kind should be required with respect to any of the companies...
Page 4 - The CHAIRMAN. All in favor say aye. [Chorus of ayes.] The CHAIRMAN.
Page 4 - Don't smile too much or they'll think we're happy about the appointment.'" 46 Others were decidedly unhappy. "If Robert Kennedy," the New York Times noted sarcastically, "was one of the outstanding lawyers of the country, a preeminent legal philosopher, a noted prosecutor or legal officer at Federal or State level, the situation would have been different. But his experience ... is surely insufficient to warrant his present appointment."* Robert Novak wrote in the Wall Street Journal that Robert Kennedy...
Page 13 - Senate (1952); assistant counsel, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (1953); assistant counsel, Hoover Commission (1953); chief counsel to the Minority, Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (1954...
Page 4 - Federal or State level, the situation would be different. But his experience as counsel to the McClellan committee, notably successful as he is, is surely insufficient to warrant his present appointment.
Page 32 - ... DUCHAINE. For 2,000 years we have been producing the same process, or the same way that we produced bread then, and most improvements or most advancements that have been made have been made more toward the laborsaving devices rather than a different process or improving the process to a consumer benefit. (At this point in the proceedings, Senator Carroll left the hearing room.) Consequently, under this continuous mix we felt it had great possibilities to give the consumer a better product, and...