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...were objective. But, to a degree, truth and understanding are linked. The Constitution has contributed to Atlanta's progress in race relations. Greenville is a safer, more open and liberal town because of Hodding Carter. A full and accurate account of the movement, its goals and tactics, might not endear Dr. King to the average white southerner, but such an account would begin to erode some of the more outlandish and dangerous tenets of racism; for instance, that the movement is riddled with communism, atheism and pansexuality...
...Congressman continuously until 1958, except for the 1945-46 term, when Franklin Roosevelt's Pennsylvania coattails were even longer than Lyndon Johnson's 20 years later. From 1954 to 1958, he was the pivotal vote for the liberals on the House Rules Committee, a distinction which did not endear him to ex-minority leader Charles Halleck. In 1958, he defeated ex-governor George M. Leader in the Senate race, and in 1964 was re-elected over Miss Genevieve Blatt by 70,000 votes, while President Johnson was carrying the state by almost a million and a half votes...
Arguing with Success. Hopman's testiness does not endear him to his players -or to anyone else, for that matter. There are some, even, who claim that his reputation as a tennis tactician is grossly inflated. "The only instructions we were ever given were 'Go for the lines' and 'Relax,'" says Lew Hoad, who also played on four of Hopman's Davis Cup squads...
This did not endear Hubert to the Senate's senior citizens. Neither did his performance the next year, when he denounced the conservative, economy-minded ideas of Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd. In response, a score of Senators, both Democratic and Republican, stood up and, without even mentioning Humphrey's name, delivered themselves of glowing tributes to Byrd. When Hubert tried to rebut, the entire Senate walked out on him in as crushing a rebuke as any Senator has ever suffered. Later, Humphrey met Byrd by chance in a Senate elevator and remarked ruefully...
...other hand, the MFDP delegation is seated in Atlantic City, it will be a slap at the majority of Democrats in the Magnolia State and throughout the South. Johnson knows that his political support below the Mason-Dixon line is tottering. Supporting the MFDP won't endear him to many white Southerners, and the obvious compromise--seating both delegations--would not appease them, and would in fact, be a major victory for Negroes and civil rights workers in Mississippi...