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...Clintons acquired a television set just before the 1956 presidential campaign, and young Bill watched with fascination both parties' conventions. In 1958 Governor Orval Faubus closed the high school in Little Rock to prevent integration, and some families brought their children the 50 miles to Hot Springs to enroll them in Clinton's school. When Clinton and Carolyn Staley, class leaders as well as good friends, were elected to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, they went to Washington and shook John Kennedy's hand in the White House...
RACE RELATIONS. Arkansas was once almost synonymous with segregation; President Eisenhower in 1957 had to call out the National Guard to protect black students admitted to Central High School in Little Rock over the opposition of Governor Orval Faubus. Clinton has sought with some success to bring blacks into the power structure: he has appointed far more blacks to state government departments, commissions and agencies than any other Governor in Arkansas' history. The Governor also has sought to foster black enterprise by directing state agencies to place at least 10% of their purchase orders with minority-owned businesses. Once again...
...Arriving on the court shortly after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that struck down racial segregation, Brennan joined the judicial march toward civil rights. When Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus tried to block the entry of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, Brennan shaped a unanimous decision that "no state legislator or executive or judicial officer can war against the Constitution without violating his undertaking to support...
...summer of 1957, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to block the integration of Little Rock's Central High School, and overnight the city became a symbol of the South's estrangement from the rest of the nation. Last week, 30 years later almost to the day, Little Rock evoked a radically different image: as a symbol of the kingmaker role that the South hopes to play in the selection of the next President. Eight candidates (six Democrats and two Republicans) traveled to the Arkansas capital to address the Southern Legislative Conference, a convocation...
Meese focused his attack on Cooper vs. Aaron, a 1958 decision prompted by Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' defiant resistance to the court's earlier landmark school-desegregation ruling, Brown vs. Board of Education. In a unanimous decision, the Justices pronounced that their decisions were the "supreme law of the land." Nonsense, said Meese. Yes, a Supreme Court decision "binds the parties in a case and also the Executive Branch for whatever enforcement is necessary. But such a decision does not establish a 'supreme law of the land' that is binding on all persons and parts of government, henceforth and forevermore...