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Thurgood Marshall — Part 12
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‘Only Family and Friends See
Marshall Sworn In by Black
By DANA BULLEN w directed the new justice's atten-. tions: except decide ‘cases,
"Star Staff Writer ~ _ |tion to a passage stating: however.:
[ “T sorta’ got sworn in,” said| “And so abideth faith, ope, It was the first,time Black had
Thurgooé-Marshall, beaming. |charity, these three; but the: ever sworn in another justice.
od-in-tre-bare Supreme greatest of these is charity. ” “J was very glad to adminis-
Court office that he will move Black, Brennan, Atty. Gen. iter the oath,” he said.
mercer,
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‘ icon P J Bible to the Hon. Thurgood
ry. Marshall on the date I adminis-| counsel -for ‘the NAACP Legal,
There was no announcement, tered the ‘oath of office to him as| Defense Fund, that he was the:
land _obody except family and a} associate Justice of the Uniteq|Jawyer who won the 1954 school:
ew friends were present: " (States.” desegregation case, that Presi-
Not many years ago the! Others present ‘Included ‘m7 | dent Kennedy had made him a:
oment would have been impos-| Perry Pippitt, the court’s mar-| federal appeals court judge’ and}.
sible, even unthinkable. y that now, after a term as.U.S.
| But there in the office late ay Mrs. ramen iack’s secre- Solicitor general, the son of. al
yesterday, an historical moment) clerks, Of the nine justice, it| Pullman car steward and the’
merged into. small. talk about happened that only Black and great-grandson. of a. slave “had!
what color rug to put in, wheth-|Rrennan were atthe court. . | been elevated fo one of the
er the fire place worked, and so highest posts in the nation.
| m. «A First for Black _. -| Jt was allthere, though, |
On a sofa, one. of ‘the few
When the court opens-iis new| , The moment dissolved, finally,
pieces of furniture eft be ve term on the first Monday in| when ‘Marshall, Brennan anda
Justice Tom GC. Clark. whom| October, - Marshall will take a few others- ‘simply wandered off,
Marshall succeeds, Mrs. Mar- second, ‘ “judicial” oath too, The| Brennan wanted to. show his
shail and the new justice’s two| Me: he took” yesterday permits| new colleague his_new green,
small sons—-Thurgeod Jr., 11, | im _t? per court func-jrug. — : . |
and John, 9—Sat looking on.
‘Still Have Butterflies’ | |
" Holding .a . white-covered]
Gideon’s Bible that Black had
given her husband’ to mark the
=loecasion, Mrs. Marshall said:
“Its thrilling. I haven’t: quite!
gotten ‘over the’ confirmation
yet. I still have butterflies in my:
stomach,”
Two days earlier, on Wednes-
day,. the Senate. approved Mar-
shall’s nomination, 69-to-11. With
lone ‘exception, Sen. Robert C,
eeu D-W. Va., all of the votes
against the President Johnson’s
appointee were by’ Southern
senators, many of them bitter
critics of Supreme Court rulings:
In the stark. office at the
Supreme Court, however, the ; 6 -/. ) aon.
mood was different, Quiet.) . by - 86 40 }
Smiling.
Stating that Marshall “goes to
work now, Black said, “I need NOT WoT RECORDED
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