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floor." He was some senator objecting to everything. In a few minutes the phone rang, "Yeah, yeah, okay." "Dan, you're the new United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi." He said,
"Courtney, I imagine Dan and Boyce want a Scotch. Get the Scotch out." Well I knew Dan didn't drink Scotch. He drank vodka, what little he drank. But he drank Scotch that day.	Jim poured	us	a big drink	and we
drank it.	We go back	to	the hotel and Dan's
got newspapers and he's looking through newspapers. Papers going every which way. I finally said, I said, "Dan, you know, since Jim Eastland has gone back to Mississippi,
I?m the only person probably in Washington that knows that you're the United States District Judge. It hasn't made the paper yet." I said, "Let's	go	down -- I'm	going to
call Dizzy	Dean, he's	in	Birmingham,	and
let's go down to see Ole Miss and Alabama play. He'll get us some tickets." He said, "That's good." So we took off to Alabama.
And we get there and we had to sit on the Alabama side, on the 50 yard line, and there
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER


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