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...conference in Glacier National Park, when Texas Governor Price Daniel tried to call a meeting of Southern Governors at which, presumably, the Southerners would declare their eternal support for Johnson. In a canvass of the Governors, Daniel got a couple of shockers: Mississippi's diehard segregationist Ross Barnett refused to guarantee his delegation for Johnson, because Johnson had pushed through the 1960 civil rights bill. Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins advised Daniel that his state was not solid for Lyndon; North Carolina, Alabama and Louisiana, among others, registered the same point. Finally, Daniel called off the breakfast meeting...
Concerning the joint efforts of those valiant champions of the "American way of life," the D.A.R., the American Legion and Governor Barnett, to "clean up our textbooks" [May 16]: if the great enlightened state of Mississippi considers its educators less capable of deciding what is and is not to be taught in the schools than a combination of hysterical old women, myopic "Don Quixotes," prejudiced supremacist pressure groups and their puppets, I pity the next generation of Mississippi's children-condemned to a blinding, stifling ignorance...
When the D.A.R. protested to former Governor J. P. Coleman in 1958, he defended the book-buying system and managed to keep it intact. When Governor Barnett took office last January, he agreed with the D.A.R., as well as with the equally agitated American Legion and Citizens' Councils...
...state house of representatives last week was a senate-approved bill empowering the Governor to appoint four members of each seven-man committee in some 40 categories of books. (The Governor already heads a state board that buys books chosen by the schools.) "Clean up our textbooks," urged Barnett. "Our children must be properly informed of the Southern and true American way of life...
...that the Governor's appointees need not even be educators. Said one house member: "You are setting into motion the greatest juggernaut of thought control ever devised by man." But the majority ruled. By a vote of 82 to 44, the house sent on the bill for Barnett's signature...