He knew that Edgar would not have come to the courtroom unless he had something important. They were not satisfied by my appointment of Jim Dyke, a successful Little Rock businessman, to lead the new department. Khrushchev was known in the United States for his confrontations with Kennedy and Nixon, but as Cold War Soviets went, he was a reformer and a fascinating character. I spent a year dueling for first chair on tenor sax with Larry McDougal, who looked as if he should have played backup for Buddy Holly, the rock
I knew I’d have to run the campaign out of Little Rock. His father was a liberal Republican lawyer—they still existed back then—who had clerked for Justice Fel You have to protect this investigation. Now it seems a bit strained and overdone, as if I were trying to find the kind of voice in which a cultivated Rhodes scholar should speak.
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