European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 10 columns the stars and stripes thursday september 27,1990 William f. Buckley  testimony recalls Brennan hearings tin irony of judge David Souter a performance before the Senate judiciary committee is very nearly unbearable so bittersweet is it. Said judge Souter the White Hope of strict construction about retired Justice William Brennan who for 31 years treated the Constitution As his personal invention Quot Justice Brennan is one of the most fearlessly principled guardians of the american Constitution that it has Ever had and Ever will  that was another Way of saying Quot you re not going to make a judge Hork out of me senator. I will Grovel with the Best of  who was tire Best Groteler of recent times before be Senate judiciary committee none other than William j. Brennan the whole scene was caught masterfully by columnist Murray Kimpton whose column on feb. 27, 1957, began Quot Joe Mccar thy destroyed the character of supreme court Justice William j. Brennan yesterday or anyway presided at its  Brennan was a recess appointment in october 1956, and the Senate judiciary committee was still involved in confirmation hearings in 1957. You Sec Joe Mccarthy was the a conc by Hiden equivalent Back in those Days and people who wanted to be confirmed were As careful in treating him As judge Souter is in treating Roc is Wade wi1at happened is that Mccarthy pretty much moribund in 1957 but still a latent Force judge Brennan did not want to contend with said he wanted to ask the judge a question or two about the investigation of communists and subversives. Did judge Brennan approve of congressional investigations Brennan a not Only do i approve but i can think of no move vital function than search ingot  did judge Brennan think that communism was a conspiracy that was a period during which he constitutionality of the Smith act sat before the court allowing or Brennan to say that alas he  pass judgment on that question. Hut then Mccarthy struck. 1 be read out loud a paragraph from a speech Given by Brennan m february 1954, at the height of he commotion caused by sen. Mccarthy a investigations at fort Monmouth will Gen. Ralph Zwicker the chief target. Listen now to me kind of thing that served the Liberal Community As calisthenic during the Mccarthy years a a the abuses of congressional investigating committees took on modern dress it is True a not the rack and the screw a Andrew j. Glass but the distorted View of the happenings at secret hearings released to the press the shouted epithet at the hapless and helpless witness. Intentionally conceived or merely misguided the result has been to engender hate and fear by one citizen or another to have us distrust ourselves and our institutions to have us become a nation afraid to borrow from Elmer Davis. But there Are hopeful signs in recent events that we have set things aright and have become ashamed at our toleration of the barbarism which marked the procedures at some of these  translation the censure of sen. Mccarthy three months earlier and the army Mccarthy hearings now scheduled Are delivering the United states from the horrors of Mccarthy ism. A a in a like to know a said Mccarthy Quot where we have been Barbaric a a this a Brennan answered a was a Little orators License. These were Mere  they had he indicated no reference to any person living or dead. As to the exposure of communists he was very much for it a very very much for  of Well said Mccarthy a what were the hopeful signs of change you saw a Brennan said he  remember what it was he had in mind when he made that speech. Kempton closed his column a senator Eastland said that they were Gonna take a recess to examine other witnesses against or. Justice Brennan just in Case any one of them might have two Heads. Eastland pulled against the dying fall of his Cigar Mccarthy and Brennan fussed with their glasses. We know something now about Justice Brennan that we would not have known had it not been for Joe Mccarthy. This is not a Man to stand the course even against the dead and the Defeated the great a even the Good a judges Are Brave ones this is a Man who takes to his Knees before  a indeed a summarized Linda greenhouse of the new York times after judge Souter a appearance on Friday a it was the conservative republicans on the committee who appeared most taken Aback by the testimony of president Bush s first supreme court  indeed conservatives can Only Hope that like his hero Justice Brennan judge Souter was merely being cowardly in speaking As he did athwart his private resolve to do something about the body snatching of the Constitution that went on under the Warren court. C Universal press Syndicate imports All dressed up with nowhere to go people in Washington still wonder u he her there la be a budget Deal or whether there la be War with Iraq. But no longer do they wonder about Sam Donaldson a shiny mop of dark hair. South Carolinas Ernest a a. I lolling took care of that Heady item. The feisty Donaldson Blind sided the senator the other Day on abcs sunday morning news talk Snow by asking him whether its True that he  in Korea. Textiles and apparel arc a big Deal in South Carolina. An 1 lolling sputtered trying to Frame excuse. Donaldson insisted upon seeing the Label a right there on National television. That was when Hollings came up with an instant classic Sally in the ongoing struggle Between journalists and politicians a i bought it Quot the Silver haired senator said a a Iii the same place right Down the Street where if you want to personalize this fling where you got that wig Sam. A clothing provides clues to character. The Les. Textile Industry provides politicians with an Opportunity for Early retirement when they fail to support anti import measures. The Senate passed a stiff Protection Bill in july and the House followed suit As it were this month. Many of those who backed the textile Bill did so on the tacit understanding that it was a a free vote a they were assured president Bush would veto the measure. Bush is the first chief executive since Dwight d. Eisenhower to win the White House without giving away the government store to the textile makers and their Union allies. In 1957, under Eisenhower the United states imposed quotas against japanese Cotton products. Japan is now out of the game having gone on to High tech stuff. But since then the United states has negotiated More than 1,000 quota bargains with 37 other countries thereby putting about three quarters of All textile imports under Trade curbs. But the controls done to work. And they wont so Long As workers in Bangladesh produce for 13 cents an hour what workers to South Carolina produce for $9.13 an hour. That a one reason Why the textile and apparel sector accounted for 27 percent of the entire . Trade deficit for the first six months of the year. But politicians watch the Trade figures. They see 4,000 angry . Textile workers bearing Rolls of cloth signed by 250,000 petitioners March past the White House. And they vote accordingly. In 1961, a third assistant White House press Secretary named Malcolm Kilduff refused to sign a petition to exclude a family of chinese ancestry from buying a Home in his Virginia subdivision. When the chinese family moved in they sought to show their gratitude through a reciprocal gesture of Goodwill. It seems a brother in Law a tailor who lived in Hong Kong visited the United states regularly. Could the Good neighbor be induced to have a suit made to order at a Good Price Kilduff wore the suit to work. It caught the Eye of the presidents press Secretary Pierre f. Salinger who was and is a Snappy Dresser. Could he get in on this Deal Salinger wanted to know no problem. Some few weeks later Salinger stripped Down to his shorts was being measured for his suit. Just then president John f. Kennedy happened to stroll in. Kilduff explained the situation. At first Kennedy exploded. A do you know what the textile labor Bosses would do to me if they knew my press Secretary was getting his suits made in Hong Kong a the president demanded. A get that chinaman outta Herell but typically the president who had his suits made in London had some second thoughts. A do you make Good suits a he inquired of the visitor from the far East just before Salinger and Kilduff reluctantly steered him away. C Cox news serv Tco