In iced, some of Douglas's most vigorous supporters acknowl edge that he has been prone to indiscretion — but indis cretion has not in the past been recognized as grounds for impeachment.What is perhaps more worthy of note is that the 110 sponsors of the anti Douglas resolution are all conservative Republicans and Dixiecrats. wanted a student to help prepare a correspondence course for law. where injury is the subject of public outrage. The man says his friend often quotes Douglas's statements. Four months after his return to the court, Douglas had to be hospitalized again due to his being kicked by a horse. He sat on the U.S. Supreme Court for more They met when he was vacationing at Mount St. Helens Lodge, a mountain wilderness lodge in Washington state at Spirit Lake , where she was working for the summer as a waitress,. But in his “judicial restraint,” he could almost be taking a leaf from Frankfurter's textbook. . Celler, conceivably, could quash the entire proceeding if he chose, but he has prom ised a thorough investigation of all the allegations — the Parvin relationship, state ments in “Points of Rebellion,” additional declarations by Douglas of a political nature, a variety of other business dealings. protection of wilderness across the United States, he was nicknamed These supporters claimed that Hannegan, a Truman supporter, feared that They were cast aside, discarded for hardier types. Douglas him self has conveyed something of his philosophy of marriage in an opinion he wrote for the Court in 1965. He gained additional
have argued that Ford's impeachment attempt was politically motivated. . Whatever their personality differences — which were considerable—the intellectual rift between the two men ran so deep that they became and remained bitter enemies.In 1936, Roosevelt did ap point Douglas to the S.E.C. If I were to have happi ness and success, I must get strong.”Douglas kept driving him self, as if to prove his robust ness to the bullies back in Yakima. But he'd never give the establishment the satisfaction. LoC card catalog number 63-17851 At age 76 on December 31, 1974, while on vacation with his wife Cathleen in the allegations about his private life, originating from political rivals Notice how the opinion applies the law di rectly to the way the political process actually works:“The right to petition for the redress of grievances . And your wife would wonder what you're doing out every night. Some say she gives Douglas a feeling of immor tality. Other justices at the time kept mistresses as secretaries or kept them But he didn't.
But it is not easy to see the successful elective official in this man who is basically shy, fundamentally introverted and more than a little difficult to along with.When Douglas was 6, his father died. Five days before the vice presidential nominee was to be chosen at the convention, on July 15, Then he hopped a freight east, stopping at hobo jungles along the way, until he reached New York, where he enrolled in Columbia Law School.Douglas finished second in his class in 1925, with a specialty of business law. . “It was,” said a Random House spokesman, “like being banned in Boston.”His speed and flexibility are not without opposing faults: Douglas irritates his colleagues by his obvious boredom with extended argu ment. The two saw each other from time to time over the ensuing months and in July, 1966, shortly after Douglas's divorce, he and Cathy were married. The horse rolled over on him and broke all but one of his ribs. They were the weak strains that nature did not protect. Douglas hardly ever betrays emotion. “I have consistently dissented,” in obscenity cases, he wrote, “not because, as frequently charged, I relish obscenity.
One can imagine that he was bemused at being dropped from the Washington Social Register, but he surely cannot have been indifferent to the displeasure of his col leagues on the Court. Contemporary public Still, a close vote would be a vic tory of sorts—a conservative show of strength.Of all the possibilities, what appears least likely is that Douglas will resign under pressure, as Fortas did. Douglas was a friend and frequent guest of . “He keeps us going,” she says playfully, “by telling us there's lunch around the bend. federal agencies or federal courts in the name of the inanimate object Surely the impeachment fuse would never have ignited had not a series of events, quite apart from Douglas's own activities, conjoined in the past year or so. It is virtually the only sign of tenderness he allows himself.At the Supreme Court, two generations of law clerks have consistently found Doug las distant and detached, pre sumably indifferent to their well‐being if not oblivious of their presence.