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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country, boy?" Just travelling through sir. "How you like our niggers, boy? You ain't one of them nigger lovers, are ya now?" An inaudible reply. "Well ah'm sure relieved to hear that. We've got so sick of all these hippies and nigger lovers that come down here. Just makes you want to bash 'em and clean the town up--just like killin' the rats so's decent people can have a place to live...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...nigger," he yelled out the door. "C'mon in here a minute." The man came. "Now you just stand here nigger. Look at this poor nigger. And all these nigger-lover bastards come down here and they want to hug these niggers and put 'em into white houses. I hate them damn nigger lovers. The only thing worse than a damn nigger is a goddamn bastard nigger-lover. Ought to be shot...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Southern Schizophrenia: | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

Although Fortas insisted in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that his private discussions with Johnson, during the past three years, never involved anything that might conceivably come before the court, he subsequently admitted to having taken part in top-level conferences on both the Vietnam war and the Detroit riots. The idea that Fortas and Johnson carefully probed Constitutional questions of the separation of powers before engaging in their consultations is discredited by a comment the Times attributed to one of the President's aides: "It doesn't occur to Johnson not to call on Fortas just because...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: The Fortas Reflex | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

...member of the key House Rules Committee under Kennedy, he enhanced his reputation as a moderate by being the only Southerner to side regularly with the administration. But he never declared himself in favor of the most important measure to come before the Committee during his tenure--the Civil Rights Bill of 1964. As administration representatives diplomatically put it, they hoped they wouldn't have to depend on the votes of Thornberry or any of the other "Southern moderates...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: The Fortas Reflex | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

More basically it is unlikely that the Mayor's Committee will come up with anything that will satisfy blacks or students. While the mayor is "moving toward community involvement," as one aide to White puts it, he still opposes community control in the extreme form which most community people seek...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: THE SCHOOL CRISIS | 10/7/1968 | See Source »

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