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er leg A A REA AFL tempts to get bills passed reversing these libe' _ hough Mr. Elsenhower makes much of s ‘ pefuial to comment on the school descgrers a n because—“I do not believe it is the fan . tion or indeed It ts desirable fos i Freak gupreme : press his approval or disapp: 3 ' Court decision.” (Jan. 21, 1958)—he has no init | bitions about calling, in effect, for vertu | of these civil Rberties decisions. om "Qn July 17, 1957, he was asked at a press i letting | ference why the Administration opposed t material ttorneys have relevan ser Thies as required by the Jencks decision. Mr. . Eisenhower replied: . ae } Dept.) have oppo: “What they (the soning. of mm) have ope in any one file in the FBI retneni ony peop 7 be mentioned, some Oe enay in snost derogatory fashion, because somebod. ig the widespread o t “erig in B iittié village can say> t -~ wenliets a skunk,’ ‘ Worse, and it will be ; dow, fnere in the report sudmitted by the indi- . rou could do incalculable damage, to my mir, Just by opening up the FBI files. It would rrible,” he said. ; pes rt ro a ee er | Ti these wits, Président was parroting’ ‘the views set forth by Justice Clark in his dis- ' Renting opinion in the Jencks éGase, After such a Performance Warren and his majority colléaguées naturally take with a grain of salt the President's protestations on other days that he could not pos- sibly comment oh a Supremé Court decision. "The President and the Chief Justice were not éver, of course, personal intimates, What has occurred in the past five years is steady dimimi- tion of warmth in their official relations. How far that diminution has gone we shall never | know until the biographers and writers of meili- _ Olrs begin thelr work, - Loe. Certainly we cannot expect Mr, Eisenho r - gic admit even to himself that his appointmentipf Earl Warren as Chief Justice will rank as on f . [this tew great constructive acts in the Presiden ‘y. 4