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Erwin Griswold, dean of the Harvard Law School, is President Johnson’s choice to succeed Thurgood Marshall as U.S. Solicitor General. We give two plaudits and a harrumph. 1) It’s nice to know that the office of Solicitor General, having passed from white to black to white, is obviously not one of those posts that seem “traditionally” occupied by a white, er a black, or a Jew, or a Catholic: we like posts handed out to quality, not color. 2) Mr. Griswold, though a a knee-jerk civil-rights buff, knows his beans in the law. 3) Mr. Griswold’s uneven record of sycophancy for the Supreme Court gives rise to the hope that he will exercise a little influence on Mr. Warren, and maybe even teach him to learn the Con- stitution good, like a Chief Justice should. @
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