Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slash the oil-and-gas depletion allowance. Said Hubert, who has regularly voted to cut the allowance: "I would vote as the President established the policy." It so happens that Lyndon is an old defender of the depletion allowance. In Arkansas, Humphrey brushed aside questions about Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' segregationist stands. "I didn't come down here to get into a squabble with the Governor," he said. "I think Governor Faubus has done some very good things in your state." He really had no chance to get into a squabble with the Governor, for Faubus was bedridden...
Predictably, Southerners were bitterly pleased that the North was at last getting a taste of racial woe. Addressing a political rally just before he walked off with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination for a sixth term. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus held up newspaper stories about the Harlem and Rochester riots and crowed: "This is New York City and New York State, and this is the state where people point their finger at Arkansas and Mississippi and send beatniks down here to try to tell us how to solve our problems!" And in the kind of paradox that has become commonplace...
...conservative as Mr. Goldwater," said he. He resigned as head of the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission, which brought 90,000 new jobs to the state during his eight-year tenure, and two weeks ago announced his candidacy for Governor. His opponent is almost sure to be Orval Faubus, who is after an unprecedented sixth term. Faubus is probably unbeatable, but Democratic and Republican pros agree that Winthrop could defeat almost anyone else...
Barry Goldwater could beat Kennedy in Arkansas today, was not even polite. With the President sitting six feet away at the dedication ceremonies, Faubus blasted the Administration's civil rights program. Said he: "We observe a great deal of time and effort being spent in sponsoring unworkable proposals . . . that would go so far as to deprive a citizen of the right of trial by jury . . . and to take from the states even more of the rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution. To abridge or destroy these basic rights will constitute civil wrongs, even though the effort may masquerade...
...Gentleman. Kennedy, when he took the rostrum, ignored the attack. Faubus claimed afterward that many Arkansans, outraged by Kennedy's stand on civil rights, had urged him not to introduce the President. "I figured I'd have to say it to protect myself," said he, "and I'd rather say it when he's here than after he's left." Complained Little Rock's Arkansas Gazette: "We might have wished that Mr. Faubus could have behaved himself like a gentleman for at least...