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...civil rights bills, Kefauver defended the bills on the steps of every courthouse where he could draw a crowd. "I shall continue to favor the expansion of the right to vote," he said in Memphis, Tennessee's most strongly segregationist city, "until every qualified citizen, regardless of race, creed or color, is able to exercise his franchise." When his enemies circulated a photograph of him shaking hands with a Negro, he cheerfully said: "I plead guilty to shaking hands with Negroes...
...York?which has not seemed to attract his talents lately anyway?but he would be the No. 2 Republican and possibly the No. 2 U.S. statesman on the national scene, and, as the politicians' phrase has it be "one heartbeat away" from the presidency. But the secret creed of ardent Rockefeller partisans on convention eve seemed to be that Nixon without Rockefeller will lose in November, that Rockefeller will suffer no party penalties, will capture the G.O.P. for himself in 1961 and ride on triumphantly to nomination and victory over President Jack Kennedy...
...same time, he realizes perfectly well that the increasingly liberal North respects the Rockefeller creed that he carefully omitted from the platform--that the world is changing, and that a new President will have to do something very concrete about it. The platform approved last night suggests that he will simply play it safe, characterizing the Democrats as too flashy to be responsible, and himself as too sedate to be anything else...
...compliance" with the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision by 1963, the xooth anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Attorney General should be "empowered and directed to file civil injunction suits in federal courts to prevent the denial of any civil rights on grounds of race, creed or color." The plank's most controversial proposal: a federal Fair Employment Practices Commission "to secure for everyone the right to equal opportunity for employment"-a proposal (already law in 16 states) that Florida's Senator Spessard Holland warned would "make it frightfully impossible to carry ten states...
...gently detached. He recalls how as a young man, in the midst of a Yom Kippur service, he looked around as pious Jews were "beating their breasts with intensity of feeling and anguishing sincerity," and he decided that his presence among them was "a kind of desecration" since their creed no longer had any meaning for him. Years later he listened to a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr and said to him after ward: "Reinie, may a believing unbeliever thank you for your sermon?" Replied Niebuhr: "May an unbelieving believer thank you for appreciating...