"Irrevocable"

Warming up to the 1956 poll-taking season, George Gallup sent his interviewers out to ask: If President Eisenhower does not run, who is your choice for the Republican presidential nomination? Among Republican voters, Gallup reported last week, the top choices were: U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren 25%, Vice President Richard Nixon 19%, former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey 11%.

Two days after Gallup announced his results, the No. 1 second choice of Republicans made his position unmistakably clear. Said Chief Justice Warren: "My name has been used as a possible candidate for the presidency. This has been a matter of embarrassment to me be cause it reflects upon the performance of my duties as Chief Justice of the United States. When I accepted that position, it was with the fixed purpose of leaving politics permanently for service on the court. That is still my purpose. It is irrevocable. I will not change it under any circumstances or conditions."*

* Two U.S. Supreme Court Justices have been nominated for the presidency. In 1916 Charles Evans Hughes, then an Associate Justice, accepted the G.O.P. nomination, was defeated by Woodrow Wilson, returned to the court in 1930 as Chief Justice. In 1872 Associate Justice David Davis, appointed to the court a decade earlier by his good friend Abraham Lincoln, accepted the Labor Reform Party's nomination, hoping that it would be a steppingstone to victory in the Liberal Republican convention. When the Liberal Republicans turned him down, Davis withdrew from the Labor nomination, did not resign from the court.

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