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Then came former Secretary Byrnes with a circumstantial story flatly contradicting Truman. Byrnes said he read the report on White and asked the President what would be done about it. Truman said he had read the report. "I asked him the status of Mr. White," Byrnes reported. "He said it...
Byrnes said he suggested that the President ask a Senator to move to reconsider the confirmation of White. "He did not think well of that suggestion," said Byrnes.
McCloskey called the subpoenas of Truman, Supreme Court Justice Clark, and Governor Byrnes "incredibly bad taste." There's no doubt that Truman would have come if merely asked to appear instead of being subpoenaed, he added. "It looks as if Velde sent the subpoenaed only to get in his bid...
One of the segregation cases centers on the constitutionality of "separate, but equal" schools. Governor Byrnes of South Carolina and the Georgia legislature have both stated that if Negroes are permitted in white public schools the state school systems will be closed. Test cases on this issue come up in...
We are not of the school which believes in always formulating policy in line with what our allies think, instead of by the public opinion in our own country. But since there has been no great public demand for Byrnes in this post to balance the adverse sentiments expressed abroad...