Word: barnetts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show up heard some changed talk from party leaders, who had previously devoted most of their energies to attacking the Kennedy Administration. Paul Johnson complained about "Republican carpetbaggers" and cried: "The birth of a two-party system in the state would divide the conservative white vote." Governor Ross Barnett shouted: "I'm fed up with these fence-riding, pussyfooting, snow-digging Yankee Republicans." And U.S. Senator John Stennis said that Mississippi Democrats must "get out and vote and thwart this challenge brought on by the Republicans...
...ruling of "no objection" from President Nathan M. Pusey. When the Brown University Daily Herald also invited Wallace, President Barnaby Keeney said that Brown is open to all speakers-"Communists, fascists, racists and bigots." Princeton's Robert Goheen sanctioned a student invitation to Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett. "Untimely and ill-considered," he said, but free inquiry is "pivotal to the very idea of a university...
Last Fall 3000 students went to hear Willy Brandt speak in Sanders Theatre. 1800 were turned away at the door. Later the same scene was reenacted when Ross Barnett spoke in the same hall. Two years ago even more people were turned away when Nelson Rockefeller spoke in Sanders...
...that a University which can attract such speakers to its campus cannot provide adequate space for its students to hear them. Sanders Theatre seats 1200 when jammed to capacity. Rindge Tech Auditorium, which seats 1500, is available at the whim of the Cambridge School Committee, which denied it to Barnett and presumably will do the same to Wallace...
Segregationist attempts to crack the solid North will not rest solely on Wallace's shoulders, however. In Princeton, the Whig-Cliosophic Society announced that Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett has accepted an invitation to speak Oct. 1. President Robert F. Goheen called the invitation "untimely and ill considered" and said it did not imply endorsement by the university of Barnett's views and actions...