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Rusk, in this respect, resembles his Southern predecessor, John C. Calhoun, who believed that political affairs were "subject to laws as fixed as matter itself." Like Calhoun, Rusk grew up in the back country of the rural South yet still adopted the ways of a Southern gentleman...
...better understand the Rusk doctrine if one recalls that Rusk, like Calhoun, underwent a complete reversal of his political position. Just as Calhoun began his career as a nationalist. Rusk started out as a doctinaire isolationist on the State Department China Desk just before World War II. Pearl Harbor, apparently, had the same traumatic effect on Rusk that the tariff of 1828 had on Calhoun, for today Rusk has re-emerged as the champion of "globalism." Rusk believes that the effect of personalities must be eliminated from international affairs and that the affairs of men must be managed without passions...
...real power lay in the House of Representatives. But after the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the struggle to hold the Union together gave new importance to the Senate as the forum of national debate, and it found its highest prestige in this time of great orators: Webster, Clay and Calhoun. These men served so long that, in their perspective, Presidents came and went, but the Senate continued. When Andrew Jackson, an outsider who swept into office with the first genuine popular vote, ventured to object to a Senate action, the body replied stonily: "The President has no right to send...
...Negro children who applied at white schools, crosses were burned on their families' lawns and bullets fired into their homes. In Sumter County, Ga., a Negro mother was fired from her job within 24 hours after she had chosen a white school for her child. In Calhoun County, Miss., a Negro pupil registered for the seventh grade in a white school but failed to attend classes after her family was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan; the school board then told her she could not attend classes at all, since she had rejected "the school of her choice...
Nonetheless, Calhoun County Solicitor Clarence Williams had no open-and-shut case for the prosecution. He had no eyewitness. He had no murder weapon in court. His case rested primarily on the testimony of Jimmie Glenn Knight, 28, a smalltime hoodlum who by his own admission had turned in his buddies to collect a reward of $20,000 raised by Calhoun County citizens and $1,000 contributed by Governor George Wallace. A month had passed before Knight, in jail on burglary and grand larceny charges, decided to testify for the prosecution...