Louis D. Brandeis, who retired yesterday as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court after 22 years’ service, has made no decision yet regarding plans following his retirement, it was said today by persons close to Mr. Brandeis.
President Roosevelt, in his reply to Justice Brandeis’s letter notifying him of his retirement, said:
“One must perforce accept the inevitable. Ever since those days long ago when you first took your seat on the Supreme Court bench I have come to think of you as a necessary and very permanent part of the court – and, since 1933, as one who would continue his fine service there until long after I had left Washington.
“The country has needed you through all these years, and I hope you will realize, as all your old friends do, how unanimous the nation has been in its gratitude to you.
“There is nothing I can do but to accede to your retirement. But with this goes the knowledge that our long association will continue, and the hope that you will be spared for many long years to come to render additional services to mankind.”
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