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don't know what I would have done but I was there guarding our honoree. So anyway, Senator Dirksen said, "Now, Mr. Russell," some of you in here are old enough to remember his voice, "Mr. Russell, have you been to the United States Supreme Court?"
Well I knew that we were in trouble because I knew Dan never had been to the United States Supreme to my knowledge, and he said, "Well I was associated on a couple of cases." Jim Eastland cut in and said, "You're just a country lawyer, aren't you, Judge Russell?"
So anyway, within a few minutes they called the whole committee together, and Jim Eastland was herding Judge and I around, and the whole committee approved, and then we go back to Jim Eastland's private office sanctorum. He had an old leather chair that looked like it was on its last leg that he sat in, it wabbled around, the leather was busted out on it, and it was kind of a sanctum sanctorum. And we were sitting there and Courtney comes in and says, "Senator Mansfield says he'll call up the nomination just as soon as Senator Williams leaves the
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER