What might have been …

July 25, 1965: Arthur J. Goldberg, who came from an impoverished background in Chicago to become an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, leaves the court after only three years. Goldberg might have been remembered as one of the court’s greatest justices had he resisted President Lyndon Johnson’s entreaties. Johnson wanted a political ally on the court, and Goldberg …

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