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...week of hope. The four governors-North Carolina's Luther Hodges, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Maryland's Republican Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, Tennessee's Frank Clement-drove up to the west side entrance of the White House to keep their appointment. (Missing: Georgia's Faubus-like Governor Marvin Griffin, who backed out at the last minute.) Their historic mission was to try to arrange with the President terms for the withdrawal of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division from Little Rock. Specifically, they proposed that 1) Faubus make a formal declaration that he would...
...deliberate speed," but 3) a desegregation order from a federal court "must be obeyed" by state officials, and the specific powers of a state governor "may not be used" to defeat a valid federal court order. Narrowing down to the Southern governors' Little Rock formula, the President wanted Faubus first to promise to use his police powers positively to enforce federal court orders; eventually the President settled for the Southern governors' draft that Faubus would promise negatively "not to obstruct" federal court orders. Midway in the meeting, the President set his own personal keynote: "I have never said...
...After the meeting, the Southern governors walked into the White House Conference Room, got Faubus on the phone, twice read the text of the proposed statement, got his endorsement. Said Faubus to Frank Bane, executive secretary of the Governors' Conference: "Fine! When do you want me to put it out?" Answer: as soon as possible. But that evening, after Faubus' statement had clacked in on the press association Teletypes, the President hustled back from the Wilson party with Brownell. underlined sentence after sentence that was not only unacceptable but was an outright contradiction of what Faubus had promised...
...orders of the federal courts will not be obstructed by me." wrote Orval Faubus, "and ... I am prepared, as I have always been, to assume full responsibility for maintaining law and order in Little Rock." The words "by me" would give Faubus an out to let someone else do the obstructing, and everybody knew how he had "maintained law and order" before. Burned once by the conference with Faubus at Newport (TIME, Sept. 23), Ike declared the whole statement unsatisfactory, called off the negotiations...
Next day, and the day after that, Faubus resolved any doubts that might have lingered in his favor. "Doubletalk" was his word for the efforts of the President and the Southern governors to make peace. "I write my statements from this end of the line. They can write theirs from that end," he said. "I am standing...