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Arkansas: With Gov. Faubus' backing, weakly Kennedy...
...Little Rock. Governor Orval Faubus. Arkansas' Galahad of segregation, gave the Kennedy-Johnson ticket a gingerly endorsement, but made it clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During...
...carried Louisiana in 1956, but, unlike Ike, Nixon cannot count on the pivotal voting power in the heavily Catholic downstate area and in the New Orleans Negro wards, which this time have been carefully cultivated by Mayor de-Lesseps Morrison's pro-Kennedy organization. In Arkansas, Governor Orval Faubus could hurt Kennedy if he should sit on his hands-and so far he is sitting. South Carolina's fledgling Republicans are dreamily hoping for a Nixon victory because of South Carolina's wide respect for conservative Republican Barry Goldwater, who will stump the state for Nixon. Mississippi...
...Orval Faubus' Arkansas, still be clouded by the storms that Faubus stirred up in Little Rock three years ago, it is a big and scary decision for a school board to assign a Negro pupil to an all-white school. Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade...
...Democratic Landslide: The election wiped me out. There wasn't anything left to talk about because we have Utopia. With Byrd, Eastland and Faubus, what can go wrong? Nelson Rockefeller: He is promising that if elected he will give the kids Little League polo...