Conviction
Boykin was convicted of conspiracy and conflict of interest in July 1963, but was pardoned by President Johnson in 1964, at the request of departing Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy.
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“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
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