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he loved Dan Russell. And he was a sawmill man. He was over in Alabama somewhere and he was riding along in the car and he heard on the radio that Dan Russell had been appointed United States District Judge, so he stopped and got off on a pay phone and called him in Bay St. Louis and he says, "Dan, I just heard where you were appointed a new United States District Judge." "That's right, Mr. Cliff." "Well I want to congratulate you. I know you will be a fine judge, and besides that, that is the only damn thing that Lyndon Johnson has ever done that I have approved of."
But it's been wonderful knowing Judge Russell. I knew him when I first came down here just a -- and I was a kid, 29 years old as DA, and used to go over to the house and we were across the street at the office and look up law and he was always on the right side of the proposition. And that wasn't easy back then either. It's not like it is now. It's wasn't easy, it's wasn't popular to be sometimes on the right side, but he was always on the right side. And Sam Favre was always with him. And I think that one of the
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER