Monday, May 25, 2009

John Courtney Murray, SJ

What is far less known, and certainly not trumpeted by Murray's Jesuit brethren today, is that Murray, a devout Cold Warrior, had twice voted for Dwight D. Eisenhower, despised Adlai Stevenson, thought Kennedy a lightweight, and likely pulled the voting-machine lever for Nixon in November 1960.

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