Category: William J. Bennett

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order,

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. “Whizzer” White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of “raw judicial power,” as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court’s reasoning.

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court’s decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? “The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold … the constitutional processes…. I will obey.”3

American soldiers were dying in frigid Korea. One of our greatest generals told us that the president and his team were not trying to win. And some strident voices were saying that that was because they didn’t want to win,