Monday, September 21, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/20/books/review/wil-haygoods-showdown-thurgood-marshall-and-the-supreme-court-nomination-that-changed-america.html
Or perhaps it’s because Johnson’s principal biographer, Robert Caro, hasn’t yet reached that part of the story....
Because there had been no Supreme Court vacancies handy, Johnson, the consummate wheeler-dealer, fashioned one, naming Ramsey Clark attorney general in order to induce his father, Justice Tom C. Clark, to quit. Johnson could then slide Marshall, solicitor general at the time, into Clark’s slot.... But for the real inside story of how all this happened, we’ll just have to wait — for Robert Caro.
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