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...Under that kind of circumstance, it was particularly difficult for Leonard," Archibald Cox `34, Williston Professor of Law and a close friend of Leonard's, said yesterday. "His judgment and his moral strength were of enormous value. I was there--he was a person to rely on, to lean on. He managed to help both the president and to deal with the black students...
...remember this," Cox added, "because those affairs were very tense and difficult. You remember the people who were strong and helpful. Walter Leonard was particularly...
Recalling another side of Leonard, Cox said, "His persuasiveness, his ability to exemplify the highest kind of standards and intellectual and moral qualities, are things which I put down that enable this man to be effective with both his professional colleagues and his students...
...Cox said that Hamilton Jordan, Carter's national campaign director, comes from a radical New Testament background in the South. His father, Clarence Jordan, was a radical populist and Southern Baptist, who started a farm called Koinonia (the Greek New Testament word for community) in Americas, Georgia. This farm was an inter-racial co-operative group with emphasis on pacifism...
...Cox mentions the Fellowship of Southern Churchmen, another populist group in the Southern tradition from which Carter has emerged. That group was a tenant and farmer organization that the Southern Baptists and Presbyterians formed many decades ago. Cox says they were "swimming against the stream of racism" and prejudice against poor whites long before that became a popular middle class Northern cause...