Democratic Justice, page 148
Brown v. Board of Education and, 584–585
federal judge appointments and, 626, 658–659
Jencks v. United States and, 632
Rosenberg v. United States and, 565, 569
Supreme Court nomination consideration, 622
Brown, Ernest, 623, 670
Brown, Thomas McPherson, 609
Brown v. Board of Education, 6, 573–580, 581–595
Bickel memorandum, 273, 576, 581–583, 584, 585, 592, 595, 645, 688
conference (Dec. 1952), 577–580
conferences (1953–54), 586–588
Cooper v. Aaron and, 650
delay strategy, 580, 583–584, 592–593, 594
Douglas’s memorandum on, 594–595
Eisenhower administration brief, 584–585, 592, 595
election of 1952 and, 570
FF’s clerks on, 570
FF’s judicial philosophy and, 595, 596
FF’s role in, 571–572, 593, 594, 595
Fourteenth Amendment history and, 570–571, 573, 576, 581, 582–583, 585, 592
Gomillion v. Lightfoot and, 673
Hand on, 596, 645
implementation of. See Brown v. Board of Education II
“John Marshall and the Judicial Function” on, 611, 612
Little Rock school crisis and, 6, 635
obstacles to, 570–571
opinion announcement, 591–592
opinion drafts, 589–591
oral arguments, 574–577
reargument, 585–586, 594
resistance to, 616–619, 627, 635–636
sociological arguments, 576, 592
Truman administration briefs, 573–574, 588, 592, 595
Warren’s role, 593–594
Brown v. Board of Education II, 596, 597–599, 604, 605–609, 650
Brunswick, Mark, 225
Brunswick, Ruth Mack, 225
Bryan, William Jennings, 13
Bryce, James, 49
Buckner, Emory
death of, 381
FF’s Harvard networks and, 151, 154, 155
Harvard Law School education, 23
Margold and, 184
Sacco-Vanzetti case and, 172, 185
Taft administration Supreme Court appointments and, 41
TR administration and, 29
Valentine and, 78
Bullard, F. Lauriston, 166
Bullitt, William C., 95–96, 108, 111, 460
Bundy, Harvey, 7, 202, 379, 394, 459, 466, 467
Bundy, Mary, 656
Bundy, McGeorge
FF’s retirement and, 696–697
FF’s stroke and, 1–2
Freund Supreme Court nomination consideration and, 694
Johnson administration and, 703
Kennedy administration and, 2, 7, 669
on atomic bomb, 466–467
Bunting v. Oregon, 74–75, 79–83, 128, 137
Burke, Edward R., 289, 290
Burleson, Albert, 129
Burlingham, C. C.
anti-Semitism and, 425
election of 1936 and, 261–262
FF’s Southern District of New York judgeship consideration and, 45
Hand Supreme Court consideration and, 408–409
Minersville School District v. Gobitis and, 360
on Berle, 530
on court-packing plan, 267
on FF’s initial opinions, 339
on Supreme Court internecine disputes, 435
Sacco-Vanzetti case and, 179–180, 185
“The Supreme Court in the Mirror of Justices” lecture and, 626
Burling, John L., 446, 447
Burling, Ned, 336
Burton, Harold
Bailey v. Richardson et al. and, 537
Brown v. Board of Education and, 576, 579, 580, 583, 587, 588, 589–590
Brown v. Board of Education II and, 606–607
Dennis v. United States and, 539
FF’s assessment of, 602
FF’s 75th birthday tributes and, 637
Louisiana ex rel. Francis v. Resweber and, 483, 484
Naim v. Naim and, 614, 615
1950s Supreme Court configuration and, 558
resignation of, 656
Rosenberg v. United States and, 560, 561, 562, 565, 566
Sipuel v. Board of Regents and, 516
Supreme Court appointment, 471
Terry v. Adams and, 580
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer and, 551, 554, 558
Bush, Vannevar, 443, 444, 466
“Business of the Supreme Court of the United States, The” (with Landis), 153, 154, 184
Butler, Pierce
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital and, 135, 273
Cardozo Supreme Court appointment and, 201
death of, 347
Hoover administration chief justice appointment and, 194
on New Deal, 244, 248, 273
Supreme Court appointment, 134
Butler, Richard, 650, 651, 652
Buxton, Frank, 171, 493–496, 498, 500
Byrd, Harry, 599
Byrnes, James F.
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine and, 493–494
atomic bomb and, 459, 462, 464, 465, 466
Bridges v. California and, 390, 391
Brown v. Board of Education and, 575, 583
Brown v. Board of Education II and, 598–599
election of 1944 and, 442
FDR administration involvement, 394
FF’s social/professional networks and, 442
Nazi saboteurs case and, 397
Supreme Court appointment, 374
Supreme Court resignation, 406
World War II and, 390
Cabot, Richard, 199
Calkins, Hugh, 539, 540
Cantwell v. Connecticut, 354–355
Cardozo, Benjamin
anti-Communism and, 317
background of, 201
biography plans, 700
death of, 283–284
FF’s engagement and, 123
FF’s Harvard network and, 154
FF’s Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court nomination and, 208
FF’s mentoring and, 7
FF’s protégés and, 76, 243
FF’s solicitor generalship offer and, 217
Holmes’s late career and, 198
Hoover administration Supreme Court appointments and, 194, 195
memorial service, 302
New Deal and, 243
on incorporation, 482, 487, 660
on New Deal, 248, 257–258, 259, 276
post-World War I Red Scare and, 126
Rauh and, 334
Supreme Court appointment, 201–203, 287
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette and, 426
Carliner, David, 613, 615
Carolene Products case, 351, 353, 357–358, 596
Carter, Edward C., 349
Carter, James J., 673
Carter, Robert L., 574, 647, 673
Carter v. Carter Coal, 259, 260, 275
Cassell v. Texas, 522
Chafee, Zechariah, 124, 125–126, 193, 350, 352, 542, 630
Chamberlain, Neville, 2, 297, 342–343, 344, 349
Chambers v. Florida, 347–348, 391
Chambers, Whittaker, 526, 527, 529, 531, 532, 534, 535
“Charter of Democracy” speech (Roosevelt), 46
Chase, Stuart, 269
Chayes, Abram, 570, 572, 669, 670, 701
Chenery I case, 413
Chicago Tribune, 309
Childs, Marquis, 564, 584
Choate, Joseph, 28
Christian Front, 318
Christie, Loring C., 48, 51, 57, 108, 381
Churchill, Winston
Atlantic Charter, 378
atomic bomb and, 444, 445
Casablanca Conference, 416
Ireland and, 373
on appeasement, 343
prime ministership, 350
Tehran Conference, 441
Trott and, 349
Yalta Conference, 451
Ciechanowski, Jan, 416
Civil Rights Act (1871), 585
Civil Rights Act (1875), 514
Civil Rights Act (1957), 633–634, 657
Civil Rights Act (1964), 5, 704–705
Civil Rights Cases, 514
civil rights. See racial justice
Civil War Amendments, 571, 586, 685–686
Clapper, Raymond, 290, 302, 311, 316
Clarke, John Hessin, 80, 128, 134
Clarke, Stanley, 57
Clark, Grenville, 23, 267, 350–352
Clark, Kenneth, 576, 592
Clark, Tom C.
Bailey v. Richardson et al. and, 537
Baker v. Carr and, 678, 682, 684
Brown v. Board of Education and, 572, 579, 580, 583, 587, 588
Brown v. Board of Education II and, 607
Cooper v. Aaron and, 653
FF’s assessment of, 602
Gomillion v. Lightfoot and, 674
Hiss affair and, 546
Jencks v. United States and, 631, 632, 633
Konigsberg v. State Bar of California and, 627
Mapp v. Ohio and, 676
NAACP v. Alabama and, 647
Naim v. Naim and, 614, 615
1950s Supreme Court configuration and, 558
Rosenberg v. United States and, 565, 566
Supreme Court appointment, 522
Watkins v. United States and, 629
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer, 554, 556–557, 558
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914), 63, 128–129, 193
Claytor, Graham, 346
clear and present danger test
Bridges v. California and, 391
Dennis v. United States and, 538–539, 540, 541, 542
Gitlow v. New York and, 157
post-World War I Red Scare and, 119, 122
Clifford, Clark, 505–506, 507, 557
Cohen, Benjamin V.
court-packing plan and, 281, 286
FDR administration and, 224, 230, 234, 237–238, 241, 252
FDR Supreme Court appointments and, 284
FF’s relationship with, 380
FF’s Supreme Court appointment and, 285, 286, 307, 308
FF’s swearing-in and, 329
Jewish refugee policy and, 343
Minersville School District v. Gobitis and, 360
Frank Murphy and, 300
New Deal and, 249–250, 259
on Cooper v. Aaron, 655
on Supreme Court internecine disputes, 435
Paris Peace Conference and, 108
Rauh and, 334
Securities Act and, 220, 221, 222
Securities Exchange Act and, 237–238
Supreme Court and, 262
Truman administration and, 457
Zionism and, 493, 501
Cohen, Jerome, 641
Cohen, Morris Raphael, 14, 23, 198, 266
Cohens v. Virginia, 540
Cohn, Alfred, 329, 442, 534
Colcord, Lincoln, 96
Cold War, 525, 538–539
Colegrove v. Green, 672, 673, 674–675, 677, 678–679, 682, 686, 688–689
Coleman v. Miller, 339–340
Coleman, William Thaddeus, Jr.
as FF’s clerk, 6, 511–513, 517, 518–519, 523, 664
Brown v. Board of Education and, 593
Thurgood Marshall and, 523–524
McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and, 519–521, 522, 523
Sweatt v. Painter and, 519–521, 522, 523
Washington, D.C. discrimination and, 519, 521, 578
Communism (Laski), 324
Conant, James, 242, 261, 443, 466, 620
“Confession of Faith” speech (Roosevelt), 52
Connally, Tom, 321
Constitution, 5, 245
Constitutional Crusaders, 315
Cooke, Alistair, 601, 646
Cook, Waldo, 180
Coolidge, Calvin, and administration
election of 1924 and, 145, 148, 149, 150
Herbert Hoover and, 188
Charles Evans Hughes and, 195
Sacco-Vanzetti case and, 182
Supreme Court appointments, 156
Cooper v. Aaron, 649–655
See also Little Rock school crisis
Cooper, Wade H., 316
Copeland, Charles Townsend, 18
Coppage v. Kansas, 69, 70
Corcoran, Thomas Gardiner
as FF’s protégé, 153
as Holmes’s clerk, 155
break with FDR administration, 379–380
court-packing plan and, 266, 271, 281–282, 286, 302
Daugherty prosecution and, 154
Douglas’s vice-presidential nomination consideration and, 442
election of 1936 and, 260
FDR administration and, 224, 229, 230, 231, 235, 237–238, 241
FDR Constitution Day speech and, 280
FDR Supreme Court appointments and, 278
FF’s relationship with, 380, 704
FF’s social/professional networks and, 336
FF’s Supreme Court appointment and, 284, 285–286, 288–290, 294, 302, 304, 306–307, 308, 311
FF’s swearing-in and, 329
Holmes’s death and, 245
Frank Murphy and, 300
New Deal and, 247, 249–250, 252
President’s Committee on Civil Service Improvement and, 337
Rauh and, 334
Reconstruction Finance Corporation position, 203
Schlesinger article on Supreme Court and, 479
Securities Act and, 221
Securities Exchange Act and, 237–238
Truman administration chief justice appointment and, 474, 475
Costigan, Edward P., 248
Cotton, Joseph P., 155, 194, 202, 249
Coughlin, Charles E., 248, 318
court-packing plan, 264–276
Alsop’s book on, 286
Brant and, 303
FF’s draft speech, 279–280
FF’s relationship with Brandeis and, 271–272, 273–274, 277, 282, 286, 333
FF’s Supreme Court appointment and, 281–282, 285, 293, 302, 311
FF’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings and, 320, 325
geographical diversity and, 299–300
Hand Supreme Court consideration and, 299–300, 407–408, 410
Roberts and, 273, 274–275
Joseph Robinson’s death and, 276–277
West Coast Hotel v. Parrish and, 272–275
Cox, Archibald, 696
Cox, Hugh, 534
Cox, James M., 128
Cox, Oscar, 390
Crawford, Mary C., 166
Criminal Justice in Cleveland (Frankfurter and Pound), 133, 161
Croly, Herbert, 61–62, 63, 67, 150, 166–167, 190
Cropley, Charles Elmore, 329
Cross, Claude B., 534
Crowder, Enoch, 84–85, 337, 399
cruel and unusual punishment, 482, 484, 560, 643
Crum, Bartley C., 493, 495, 498–499, 545
Culberson, Charles, 75
Cummings, Homer
Black Supreme Court appointment and, 277–278
court-packing plan and, 265
FF’s solicitor generalship offer and, 215
FF’s Supreme Court appointment and, 284, 285, 287, 291–293, 299, 300–301, 304, 305, 307, 308, 309
New Deal and, 252
Cuneo, Ernest, 474
Dagenhart, Roland, 99
Dahlman, Ann, 336
Danaher, John A., 321
Daugherty, Harry M., 145, 154, 156
Davies, Joseph, 460–462, 463, 464
Davis, John W.
Black Monday and, 254
Brown v. Board of Education and, 575, 585, 592
election of 1924 and, 146–148, 149, 150
Sacco-Vanzetti case and, 185
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company v. Sawyer and, 551–552, 575
Dawson, Geoffrey, 234
Day, William R., 81, 122, 129, 134
D.C. Court of Appeals minimum-wage case, 127–128, 131–132
See also Adkins v. Children’s Hospital
De Blanc, Bertrand, 482
Debs, Eugene V., 128
Debs v. United States, 119, 358
“Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb, The” (Bundy), 466–467
Defense Production Act, 553, 556, 557
de Haas, Jacob, 105, 114
Deming, Harold, 29
democratic political process. See Frankfurter, Felix (FF), FAITH IN DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL PROCESS
Denison, Winfred T.
antitrust enforcement and, 29, 31
Croly and, 61
death of, 123
FF’s Harvard Law School professorship and, 58
House of Truth and, 48, 49, 57
Taft administration and, 44–45
U.S. Board of General Appraisers investigative commission and, 53, 57
War Department resignation, 64
Denman, Marion. See Frankfurter, Marion Denman
Denman, William, 292, 299, 300, 301, 304
Dennis v. United States, 538–543, 627, 628
Desvernine, Raoul, 387
Devaney, John P., 285, 290, 305
Dewey, John, 180, 198
Dewey, Thomas, 442, 500, 504, 622
DeWitt, John L., 418, 445, 446, 447, 449, 450
Dewson, Molly, 136, 209, 664
Dickinson, John, 224
Dies Committee. See House Un-American Activities Committee
Dies, Martin, Jr., 313, 452–453
Dilliard, Irving, 287, 360, 542
Dilling, Elizabeth, 316–317, 319, 320, 322, 326
District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., 580–581
Dix, John Alden, 33, 35
Dodd, Thomas, 659
Doheny, Edward, 147
Dondero, George A., 545
Donnellan, Mary, 245
Doolittle, Bill, 637, 641
Dorr, Goldthwaite, 29, 193
Dos Passos, John, 166, 178
Double Jeopardy Clause, 482, 484, 660
Douglas, Elsie
Bickel and, 690
FF’s heart attack and, 656
FF’s post-retirement finances and, 698
FF’s post-stroke personality changes and, 700
FF’s retirement and, 695
FF’s 75th birthday tributes and, 637
FF’s stroke and, 692
Marion Frankfurter and, 708
Jackson’s death and, 600, 603
Douglas, William O.
Baker v. Carr and, 677, 682, 683, 684
Bridges v. California and, 375
Brown v. Board of Education and, 579, 580, 583, 587, 588, 594–595
Brown v. Board of Education II and, 606
Colegrove v. Green and, 672
Coleman v. Miller and, 340
Cooper v. Aaron and, 653
denationalization cases and, 643
Dennis v. United States and, 539, 541
District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. and, 581

