These essays by Robert F.
These essays treat many of those issues with considerable depth and clarity of argument and opinion Characteristically, it is not possible to take this book lightly, whether the subject is wiretapping, the radical rig.
In so doing it gave the American people a political orientation stronger than any witnessed since the Roosevelt One Hundred Days.
In meeting them, the Administration broke many precedents and established a few others.
During that time the United States faced many major crises at home and abroad and, for better or worse, met them.
This volume contains twelve essays or "position papers" dealing with those problems with which one such Attorney General was most occupied and preoccupied during his issue-1aden three years and nine months of service.
The Attorney General is taken every way but lightly.
Such a situation must be blood-curdling for the incumbent because the fascination is not of the passive and pleasant sort of engagement associated with the best television programs.
When the holder of the office is also a member of the innermost governing circle, public attention turns to fascination.
As a consequence, few posts in government share such public attention as that of the Attorney General.
And it is impossible to conceive of a time when all parties interested in the stakes of government could be pleased with a decision, or a non-decision-of the man who holds the office. lt is impossible, therefore, for an Attorney General not to have taken a position on most of the basic issues of his day.
All of the "hard cases" of law enforcement, public administration and governmental services eventually find their way to his desk.
The office of Attorney General is in many respects the hot corner of political combat.
This book was published in 1964 while he was alive, unlike his other books that were not published until after his death.
Kennedy grew out of speeches, travel and his experience as Attorney General and a United States Senator.
These essays by Robert F
