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Article: Hugo Black: A Biography. (book reviews)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 1995
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Finally, there is a complete biographical picture of an icon of American journalism, the First Amendment absolutist, Associate Justice Hugo Lafayette Black of the United States Supreme Court. But iconography was not on my mind when my wife, Josephine, and I picked him up at the court for drinks and dinner during Christmas break of our Nieman year, 1967-68.
I said, "Judge, you've been on the court for about 30 years now. Surely, you have a different view of the institution than you did in the Senate when you supported Roosevelt's notorious court-packing scheme."
"Funny you should ask me that," he replied mildly. "I had some of those old Senate speeches out not ...