Word: faubused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting began at 8:50 a.m. on a grey, sticky morning last weekend, after a marine helicopter put Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus down on the lawn of Dwight Eisenhower's vacation headquarters at Newport, R.I. First the President and the governor talked alone for 20 minutes behind the drawn blinds of a tiny office. Then they moved to an adjoining room for a two-hour conference with Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, and Arkansas' Democratic Representative Brooks Hays, who had helped arrange the meeting (see below...
...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
Arkansas' Governor Faubus appears to have gone even farther than Pennsylvania's embattled Governor Snyder in that he appears, personally, to be creating conditions in which he might violate the law. By disposing state militiamen around his mansion to prevent serving of a legal processor warrant, he will be liable (if such a warrant is issued) to punishment of a fine not exceeding $300 and/or one year's imprisonment...
...courts, the U.S. can meet Faubus' challenge by: 1) issuing a court order to Faubus to show cause why he should not be held in contempt for having obstructed the integration orders of U.S. courts; 2) issuing a court order to Faubus to stand down the Arkansas National Guard from the Little Rock Central High School; 3) citing Faubus for contempt. Beyond that, it would be open to the U.S. to withdraw recognition from the Arkansas guard as a part of the federal military establishment, implying a cutoff of the $5,500,000 annual federal subsidy and a recall...
Anywhere along this long legal line Faubus could withdraw, by calling off the state guardsmen and letting integration proceed. In this event President Eisenhower, like Madison, would not be likely to instigate reprisals against the governor. But the U.S. is nonetheless determined to move through the courts, slowly, deliberately, sensibly, to win the battle and safeguard the Constitution. This was the determination, in the spirit of Marshall and Madison, that underlay the cold message sent to Orval Faubus last week by President Eisenhower...