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Oral History of Philip Lacovara, Esq.
Index
ACLU, 177
ALI (American Law Institute), 35, 38
All the President’s Men (movie), 228
Almeida-Sanchez (case), 105
American Bar Association, 3, 60-61, 134, 145, 178
Section of Individual Rights (Civil Liberties section), 178
Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, 269
Arnold and Porter, 166, 169
Arthur Andersen, 235
Austin v. United States (case), 69
Bazelon, David, 52, 54, 257-59
Bazelon, Miriam, 258
Beatty, Frank, 63
Becker, David, 172
Bernard, Lewis, 222
Bernhard, Berl, 171
Bernstein, Carl, 111
Bickel, Alex, 269
Biden, Joe, 271
Blackman, Harry, 272
Blue Bloods (televiaion show), 80
Borders, William, 206
Bork, Robert, 61, 109-10, 127-28, 139, 210-12, 257, 270-71
confirmation hearings, 209
Boyle, David, 184-85
Brandeis, Louis D., 211
Buchen, Philip, 159
Bulwark (news and opinion website), 243
Bureau of National Affairs (BNA), 162
Berger v. the United States (case), 156
Burger, Warren, 54, 151, 258-60, 272
Butterfield, Alexander, 120
Buzhardt, Fred, 133
Cabranes, Jose, 167
Califano, Joe, 164
Carter, Franklin (Frank), 262
Carter, Jimmy, 202, 204
Chancellor, John, 126
Claiborne, Louis, 632
Clark, Ramsey, 115
Codd, Mike, 84
collegiality, 55
Collier, Cal, 183
Committee to Re-Elect President Nixon, 112
Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers), 173
Cox, Archibald, 113-16, 120-26, 128, 129, 131, 133-34, 136, 138, 148, 157, 160, 172, 211
Cronkite, Walter, 126
Cutler, Lloyd, 264
D.C. Bar, 218, 233-35
John Payton Leadership Institute, 221
Dash, Sam, 212, 216
Dean, John, 117
Dellinger, Walter, 200
Dewey, Tom, 2
District of Columbia Circuit, 36, 41, 47, 50, 54-55, 58, 69, 106, 123-24, 141, 206-08, 212, 259,
264
Bork, Robert, 212
Dobbs (case), 271
Dombroff, Mark, 186
Douglas, William, 120, 148
Dr. Strangelove (movie), 231
Dred Scott (case), 243, 246
Ehrlichman, John, 141
Eighth Amendment, 77
Ervin, Sam, 213
hearings, 115, 117
Fahey, Charles, 258-59
FBI, 97, 129, 201-05, 210
Federal Heroin Control Statute, 67
Federal Marijuana Control Statute, 67
Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, 154
Federalist Society, 208, 271, 274
Fifth Amendment, 67, 107
Fisher, Dick, 226
Ford, Gerald, 159
Fortas, Abe, 166, 167-68, 267
Frampton, George, 131, 212
Frey, Andy, 234
Friedman, Paul, 218, 257
Gage, Beverly, 205
Gallo, Crazy Joe, 85
GAO (General Accounting Office or General Accountability Office), 1823
Geller, Ken, 234, 236
Giuliani, Rudy, 98-99, 169, 187, 190-92
Glass-Steagall Act, 225
Glazer, Sidney, 116
Goldman, Jerry, 172
Graham, Lindsey, 274
Gray, L. Patrick, 202
Green, Joyce Hens, 262
Griswold, Erwin, 62, 65, 69, 71, 75-76, 99, 104, 109, 139, 163
Smithsonian Associates member, 63
Hagen, Howie, 82
Haig, 128-29, 132, 135, 206-07
Haldemanm H. R., 141
Harris, Kamala, 157
Hastings, Alcee, 207-08
Hauser, Richard (Dick), 205
Heimann, Fritz, 222
Heineman, Ben, 188, 196, 222
Hickey, Pat, 262
Hoover, J. Edgar, 97, 201-03, 205, 213
Hughes Hubbard and Reed, 73, 75, 164-65, 167, 169, 172-73, 186, 190, 192, 215, 234-35
Hughes, Jr., Charles Evans, 72
In the Matter of the Jewels of the Princess of Orange (case), 146-47
Jackson, Robert, 248
Jaworski, Leon, 133-36, 138, 140-41, 143, 147, 158-59. 172
Johnson, Andrew, 207
Johnson, Frank, 204
Jordan, Bob, 217
Kagan, Elena, 210
Kearse, Amalya, 73
Kennedy, John
administration, 44, 78, 113
assassination, 43
Kennedy, Ted, 271
Kirk, Grayson, 43
Kleindienst, Richard, 115, 117
antitrust case, 117
Korematsu (case), 243, 246
Kreindler, Peter, 120, 125, 131, 148, 153, 172
Kriegel, Jay, 79-80
Lacovara, Phillip, 1254
Lacovara, Christopher (son), 250
Lacovara, Madeline Estelle (wife), 20, 31-32, 46, 91, 100, 126, 130, 193, 214, 222, 255, 258, 264
Lacovara, Michael (son), 249
Lano, Angelo, 130
Lawton, Mary, 203
Leary, Timothy, 67
Legal Times (newspaper), 208, 249
Leventhal, Harold, 36, 39-40, 49-54, 74, 162, 172, 183, 255, 257-58, 260, 264-65
Leventhal, Kay, 264
Lindsay, John, 78-80
Talent Bank, 78
Linowitz, Sol, 163
litmus testing, 209, 271-72
Lumumba, Patrice, 41
Mar-A-Lago (case), 102
Mardian, Robert, 141
Marshall, Cissy, 59-61
Marshall, Thurgood, 36, 56-58, 60-62, 64, 69, 178, 211, 228
Thurgood Marshall Award, 178
Martin, John, 63, 67, 107, 191, 236
McCord, James, 111, 131
McGautha v. California (case), 66
McGowan, Carl, 54, 258-59
McGrory, Mary, 1
McPherson, Harry, 171
Merck & Company, 182
Messinger, Ruth, 192
Midnight in Paris (movie)
by Woody Allen, 266
Millstein, Ira, 193, 222
Mitchell, George, 141
Mitchell, John, 112, 115
Morgan Stanley, 194, 221-28, 231-32
Murphy, Betty, 81, 91, 126
Murphy, Pat, 80-81, 85, 92, 126
Police Foundation President, 126
National Defense Education Act. 33
National Law Journal (magazine), 249
New York Daily News (newspaper), 17
New York Historical Society, 200
New York Times (newspaper), 95-96, 98, 208-09
Niles, Russell, 34
Nixon v. Sirica (case), 141
Nixon, Richard, 1, 48-49, 62, 90, 109, 112, 117-120, 123-25, 135, 138-40, 142, 149, 152, 154-
60, 205, 208, 244, 2475
tapes case, 161, 190
Nkrumah, Kwame, 24, 41
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 272
Obama administration, 94
Ogletree, Charles, 262
Organization of American States, 163
Pacino, Al, 229
Palmer, A. Mitchell, 105
Parkinson, Kenneth, 141
PDS (Public Defender Service), 220, 262, 263
Penn, John Garrett, 207
Pentagon Papers (case), 117
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Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, 8
father
Columbia Law Review,, 2
Columbia Law School, 2
general counsel of the Fiduciary Trust Company, 2
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birth Brooklyn, New York, 1
born in Brooklyn, New York, 1
cadet colonel, 15, 200
Catholic upbringing.
chiildhood, 6
Classic Comics,, 7
Cold War, 12, 13, 37, 90, 231
colonel, 17, 22
Columbia Law School, 2, 8, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 43, 51, 52, 54, 63, 101, 249, 259
Columbia Law School Students for Goldwater co-chairman, 42
Columbia Law School teaching, 94
Columbia University, 202
Cuban Missile Crisis, 231
father a trusts and estates lawyer, 2
Georgetown University, 11, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 39, 41, 47
grandfather was a pharmacist, 1
greening of Philip Lacovara, 178, 246
importance of civility in practice, 267
inveterate television watcher, 9
legal profession now more dollar-centered, more aggressive, more all-consuming, 266
military science. at Xavier, 14
mother comptometer operator, 3
mother training as a seamstress, 3
Niece Rachel, 46
prejudice father, 28
Readers Digest, 7
role did religion play in your family life, 6
some reflections to share on some of the horrible civil rights tragedies in the South in the mid-
1960s, 44
the Legislative Research Drafting Fund, 37
thoughts on “sharp practice”, 268
thoughts on the structural factors that have led to the court’s diminished public repute and
therefore the diminished public acceptance of the validity and legitimacy of its decisions,
274
unitary executive theory, 247
why the confidence in the court has fallen to its low ebb now, 270
Xavier, 6, 10, 11, 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Xavier at Xavier, we had I think ultimately when I became a cadet colonel, 13
Xavier character development, 18
Xavier High School, 6, 10, 15, 200
Xavier speech and debate club, 19
PERS
sisters, 4
Petersen, Henry, 129, 133, 138, 140
Phillips, Carter, 234
Pincus, Andy, 235
Plessy v. Ferguson (case), 243, 246
Posner, Dick, 63
Praof
nickname “No Notes Lacovara”, 107
Prettyman, E. Barrett, 49, 54
Prince of the City (movie), 228
Prof
ABA International Human Rights Trial Observer Project, 179
Admissions Committee chair, 255
Advisory Committee on Procedures for the D.C. Circuit, 254
arbitrations and mediations, 242
arbitrator, 240
atmosphere in the SG’s Office, 109
Belgrade Six, 179
chair of the Committee on Procedures, 254
chairing the section of what was then called Section of Individual Rights of the American Bar
Association, 59
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the District of Columbia Public Defender Service, 261
Committee on Admissions, 261
counsel to the Watergate special prosecutor, 151
D.C. Bar, 205, 216, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221
D.C. Bar as chairman of the Code Committee of the D.C. Bar XE “Prof:D.C. Bar” Ethics
Committee, 217
D.C. Bar President, 2207
D.C. Bar pro bono projects, 220
deputy solicitor general for criminal and internal security cases, 104
deputy solicitor general for criminal matters, 138
Dirty Tricks taskforce, 117
District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission, 206, 262
Ellsberg break-in, 116
GE, 188, 189, 190, 191, 192, 193, 197, 198, 199, 217, 218, 219, 221, 222, 223
GE appliance business, 197
GE Capital, 189, 198
GE management, 230
GE vice president and senior counsel for litigation and legal policy, 189
Hughes, Hubbard, and Reed (New York law firm), 56
Hughes, Hubbard, and Reed (New York law firm) previously Hughes, Hubbard, Blair and
Reed, 72
INSEAD, the European institute of business administration in Fontainebleau for the executive
development program, 223
JAMS, originally the Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Service,, 237
Joint Terrorism Task Force, 81
lobbying for what’s now called Big Pharma, 175
Mayer Brown, 227, 232, 234, 235, 236, 237, 241
Mayer Brown head of the pro bono program, 237
Mayer Brown pro bono asylum cases, 238
Mayer Brown Supreme Court XE “Supreme Court” specialty practice, 234
mayor’s task force on prostitution and pornography liaiaon, 89
member of the Judicial Conference of the Circuit, 255
Northwest Airlines, 173, 183
NYPD, 65, 66, 78, 83, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 98, 100, 101, 126, 176, 201, 228
NYPD equal opportunity, 86, 87, 88
NYPD special counsel to the police commissioner, 80
post Watergate period, 174
pro bono efforts, 178
SEC investigations and litigation, 173
Solicitor General’s Office, 164
Special Assistant to the Attorney General, 75
special assistant to Thurgood Marshall, 58
teaching at John Jay College and at Hunter College, 232
Watergate, 66, 81, 98, 102, 109, 110, 112, 116, 124, 129, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 150, 151,
161, 162, 170, 172, 190, 202, 210, 212, 218, 222, 228, 229, 230, 234
investigation, 149
prosecution team, 172
special prosecutor, 156
Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 128
Watergate break-in, 139
Watergate prosecutor’s office, 190
Watergate Special Prosecution Force, 116, 127, 130, 132
Watergate special prosecutor., 1158
Watergate Special Prosecutor’s Office, 230
Prof:, 116, 220
Public Interest Research Group, 177
Raven Rock (book)
by Garrett M. Graff, 33
Reagan administration, 183, 186, 199, 205, 247
Reagan, Ronald, 186, 206-07
Richardson, Elliot, 112, 128, 134, 140, 160
Rifkin, Bob, 63
Rizik Brothers, 71-72
Roberts, John, 107, 119, 142, 243, 247-48, 234
Robinson, Spotswood, 58
Roe v. Wade (case), 209, 271
Roosevelt, Teddy, 80
Ruckelshaus, Bill, 128
Ruth, Henry, 120, 125, 127, 139
Samuels, John, 189
Saturday Night Massacre, 110, 121-22, 125, 127, 131-32, 135, 140, 154, 210-11
Scalia, Antonin (Nino), 15, 17, 185, 190, 199-200, 268
Schlesinger, James, 158
Schmaltz, Ed, 190
Schmidt, Hans, 38
Schumer, Chuck, 224
Schwartz, Fritz, 203
SCI clearances (Sensitive Compartmented Information), 117
Second Circuit, 57, 73, 167
Segretti, Donald, 112
Senate Select Committee on President Campaign Activities, 113, 212
Serpico (movie), 228
SG. See Solicitor General
Shapiro, Irving, 202
Shapiro, Jerome, 74
Shapiro, Stephen, 234
Sheffield, William (Bill), 212-13, 216
Sirica, John, 111, 122-23, 131-32, 137, 141, 148, 257
Solicitor General’s Office, 50, 56, 62, 66, 69-70, 101, 104, 107, 114, 163, 234
Stennis, John, 135
Stevens, John Paul, 272
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 73
Subversive Activities Control Board, 108
Supreme Court, 1, 15, 39, 51, 54, 57, 59, 61-62, 64-65, 69, 72- 76, 99, 106- 08, 110, 119, 121,
123-24, 127, 137-38, 141, 143, 145, 149, 151-52, 154-55, 157, 160, 162, 166-67, 172-73, 182-
84, 187-88, 199, 208-11, 232, 234, 242-46, 257, 267-73, 275
ruling on immunity, 1199
tapes case, 141, 155
Watergate, 140
Watergate opinion, 147
Supreme Court Historical Society, 166, 199
Tamm, Edward, 54, 258
Tenure of Office Act, 207
Time (magazine), 150
Tolson, Clyde, 201
Tribe, Laurence, 40
Trump v. the United States (case), 102, 160, 243, 247
Trump, Donald, 157, 193, 233, 242, 246
U.S. Law Week (magazine), 269
United States Football League (USFL), 172
United States of America v. Richard Nixon, President of the United States (case), 142, 147, 243
United States v. Nardello (case), 67, 70
US Law Week (magazine), 162
Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard & McPherson, 172
Vietnam War, 200
Vorenberg, 114, 115
Vorenberg, James, 113-15
Ward, Ben, 86-87
Washington Lawyer (magazine), 147
Washington Post (newspaper), 111
Washington Star (newspaper), 1
Watergate
Ervin Committee, 112-13, 212
Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, 112
Watergate Girl (book)
by Jill Wine-Banks, 230
Wechsler, Herbert, 35, 37-38, 52
Weil, Gotshal & Manges, 222
Weinstein, Harris, 63
Welch, Jack, 169, 188-89, 193-94, 196, 199, 217, 223
Neutron Jack (nickname), 197
Wendt, Gary, 198
William Borders v. Ronald Reagan, Alexander Haig and Philip Lacovara (case), 207
Williams and Connolly, 164-65
Williams, Treat, 229
Wine-Banks, Jill
formerly Jill Wine-Volner, 229
Woodward, Bob, 111
Wright, Jay Kelley, 172
Wright, J. Skelly, 54, 63, 172, 25810
Young Turks, 175