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...eventful week of his presidency-one of the more remarkable weeks in the history of that office. But the story is much more than the week's narrative. It offers a considered assessment of the President's role as Commander in Chief of a nation at de facto war, as a get-things-done domestic leader, and as the boss of his Administration. Beyond this, it presents a sensitive reading on how the people of the country feel about President Johnson and his leadership. For this part of the story, TIME reporters across the country interviewed...
...conferees saw no surefire means to solve the central problem of urban change: school segregation, which has merely shifted focus from legally enforced separation to de facto segregation. Nearly every metropolitan area reports an increase in segregated schools as a result of housing patterns. For a start, proposed Pittsburgh School Superintendent Sidney Marland Jr., there ought to be a drastic redrawing of school districts in major cities and their suburbs...
Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, a White House conference Tuesday that segregated becoming more entrenched in both the North and the South. In a paper prepared for President Johnson's Conference on Pettigrew charged that "many Southern cities are openly striving to emulate the Northern de facto segregation...
...increasingly segregated housing patterns have combined with policy of neighborhood schools to foster segregated education on centers throughout the country, Pettigrew declared. "As segregation of schools slow- de facto segregation by increasing," he said...
Once lauded as an able, effective administrator, Willis has lately found himself the target of civil rights groups, who charge that he has pursued a go-slow policy in integrating the city's 550 public schools and has gerrymandered school districts in order to promote de facto segregation. For a while it appeared that the eleven-member Chicago school board would not renew Willis' contract, which expires in August. But then, at a recent meeting, the board voted to give him another four-year contract-with the firm understanding that Willis would retire in October 1966, when...