[Thanks to Cat Eldridge, SF Concatenation’s Jonathan Cowie, Steven French, Kathy Sullivan, Mike Kennedy, Andrew Porter, John King Tarpinian, and Chris Barkley for some of these stories. Title credit belongs to File 770 contributing editor of the day Soon Lee.] Posted inNorthumberland Heath SF...
U.S. Supreme CourtThe U.S. Supreme Court as it was constituted in 2009, with (left to right) Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice Samuel A. Alito, Jr., Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., Associate...
—white Southerners, who were upset by the prointegration policies of leading Democrats, including President Truman, who had ordered the integration of the military. Eisenhower wasreelected in 1956, but in 1960Richard M. Nixon, Eisenhower’s vice president,lost narrowlyto DemocratJohn F. Kennedy....