Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COVERING the news in Little Rock last week was an experience that TIME'S correspondents will not soon forget. Three TIME reporters-Dallas Bureau Chief Bill Rappeleye, Chicago Correspondents Burt Meyers and Jack Olsen-were marked men, thanks to Governor Orval Faubus, who blamed TIME for many of his self-made troubles in a radio-TV broadcast the week before. Reported Burt Meyers: "We found frequent references being made to TIME, few, if any, complimentary -and some were downright bloodthirsty. But we kept our mouths shut, dodged any questions about our connections and kept out of trouble." Even...
More Drastic Talk. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus was not one of these. He had drawn the battle lines. President Eisenhower had patiently tried to avoid direct conflict, but when forced to the issue, he had acted quickly and decisively (see below). Now, at week's end Faubus -like Joe McCarthy before him-was trying to regain the initiative by even more drastic talk, slandering his political opponents, and musing about the possibility of calling a special session of the Arkansas legislature to abolish the public school system. And the President of the U.S. would return to Washington this...
...governors typified the dilemma in which Orval Faubus had placed the South. Only one, Georgia's Marvin Griffin, was a rabble-rouser of the Faubus stripe. The four others, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Tennessee's Frank Clement, North Carolina's Luther Hodges and Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little...
Life of the Party. The President did not mention Orval Faubus by name, but it was Faubus, more than any other, who had confronted the U.S. with a choice between law and anarchy. During the previous three weeks, egged on by racists around him, he had stirred Little Rock into emotional turmoil. Ambitious for a third term, eager to win political support from Arkansas segregationists, he had thwarted a federal court integration order by calling out his National Guard to "prevent violence" in a city where none existed. What the National Guard was really being used...
...Pentagon was ready: informed that the President's order was on the way. Wilson rapped out his own instructions. The ground and air forces of the Arkansas National Guard were placed in federal service, safely out of the hands of Governor Orval Faubus. who had used them to defy the U.S. Government. Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor called Fort Campbell, Ky. and assigned the 327th Battle Group of his old outfit, the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, to bring law to Little Rock. Tough, battle-tried Major General Edwin Walker was placed in command...