1969 Washington Post newspaper WARREN BURGER nmed Chief Justice US SUPREME COURT

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1969 Washington Post newspaper WARREN BURGER nmed Chief Justice US SUPREME COURT:
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1969 Washington Post newspaper - WARREN BURGER nmed Chief Justice of the US SUPREME COURT -inv # 8W-101

Please visit our store at the link directly below for HUNDREDS of HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS on sale or at PHOTO-----An ORIGINALcomplete front newssection of a NEWSPAPER,the Washington Post ((DC) dated May 22, 1969. This has a bold banner headline announcing the appointment of WARREN BURGER as Chief Justice of the US SUPREME COURT.

This was subesquent to the nomination by President Lyndon Johnson of ABE FORTAS to be the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (he already was an associate Justice of the US Supreme Court). Thisnominationwas eventually withdrawn due to Conservative Republican criticism of Fortas.

Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907– June 25, 1995) was the 15th Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger was a conservative, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a variety of liberal decisions on abortion, capital punishment, religious establishment, and school desegregation during his tenure.

In 1968, Chief Justice Earl Warren announced his retirement after 15 years on the Court, effective on the confirmation of his successor. President Lyndon Johnson nominated sitting Associate Justice Abe Fortas to the position, but a Senate filibuster blocked his confirmation. With Johnson\'s term as President about to expire before another nominee could be considered, Warren remained in office.

In 1969, President Richard Nixon nominated Burger to the Chief Justice position.

Through speeches given by himself Burger became known as a critic of Chief Justice Warren and an advocate of a literal, strict-constructionist reading of the U.S. Constitution. Nixon\'s agreement with these views, being expressed by a readily confirmable, sitting federal appellate judge, led to the appointment. The Senate confirmed Burger to succeed Warren, who in turn swore in the new chief on June 23, 1969. In his presidential campaign, Nixon had pledged to appoint a strict constructionist as Chief Justice.

According to President Nixon\'s memoirs, he had asked Justice Burger in the spring of 1970 to be prepared to run for President in 1972 if the political repercussions of the Cambodia invasion were too negative for him to endure. A few years later, in 1971 and 1973, Burger was on Nixon\'s short list of vice-presidential replacements for Vice President Spiro Agnew, along with John Connally, Ronald Reagan, and Nelson Rockefeller before Gerald Ford was appointed following Agnew\'s resignation in October, 1973.

When Burger was nominated for the Chief Justiceship, conservatives in the Nixon Administration expected that the Burger Court would rule markedly differently from the Warren Court and might, in fact, overturn controversial Warren Court era precedents. By the early 1970s, however, it became apparent that the Burger Court was not going to reverse the rulings of the Warren Court and in fact might extend some Warren Court doctrines

This issue is the complete frontnews sectiononly, NOT the entire newspaper. Great for display purposes !!!

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