Opinion by Ruth Marcus: The Harlan Crow tuition payments cross the line from extraordinary hospitality to direct financial benefit, money that ought never to have been accepted but should have been disclosed if it was.
This is simply wrong. The tuition payments went directly to the schools, but they effectively constituted a cash gift to Thomas, one he never should have accepted from anyone, but certainly not from Crow. Thomas gets to choose his friends, but he doesn’t get to take their money.as a donor to “moderate Republican” candidates and causes, and stressed to the Dallas Morning News that he, unlike Thomas, is “pro-choice.
The gifts “reflected only the affection and generosity of a dear friend,” Brennan told me at the time. “Mr. Smith has stated that he made these gifts in recognition of my public service.” So how does Thomas stack up? Wolfson was a far more questionable character than Crow. As Bob Woodward later, Fortas, as a sitting justice, improperly advised Wolfson on his travails with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Wolfson sought to enlist Fortas to intervene with President Lyndon B. Johnson, a close Fortas friend, to obtain a pardon. All this makes the Fortas episode considerably worse.
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