Word: faubusing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dwight Eisenhower, the issue was not integration v. segregation; it was the integrity of the U.S. Government and its judicial decisions. Orval Faubus had left him no choice. Said he to Brownell: "I want you to send up that proclamation. It looks like I will have to sign it, but I want "to read it again." That evening, on the sun porch of his living quarters, President Eisenhower signed the proclamation commanding all persons obstructing justice in Little Rock "to cease and desist therefrom and to disperse forthwith...
Monument to Demagoguery. Orval Faubus, meanwhile, had flown back from Sea Island. Arriving in Little Rock, Faubus joked feebly: "I feel like MacArthur. I've been relieved of my job." But Orval Faubus had no intention of fading away. He holed up in his executive mansion and began working on a national television speech...
...monument to demagoguery. "Evidence of the naked force of the Federal Government is here apparent in these unsheathed bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls," cried Faubus, holding up a photograph-but not long enough to show that the girls were merely walking, giggling, past a line of troopers. In the Faubus account, bloodied Agitator Blake was suddenly transformed into a "guest in a home." The Army had gone on an orgy of "wholesale arrests." Actual number: eight, with four fined for loitering, and four released at the police station. An "imported judge," i.e., U.S. District Judge Ronald Davies of Fargo...
Then, overwhelmed by the injustice of it all, Orval Faubus recalled that as a World War II officer in the 35th Infantry Division he had "helped rescue" the 101st Airborne from Bastogne (by the time the 35th arrived on the scene, it was the Germans who needed rescuing from the Screaming Eagles). Cried Orval Faubus: "Today we find the members of the famed division, which I helped rescue, in Little Rock, Ark., bludgeoning innocent bystanders, with bayonets in the backs of schoolgirls, and the warm, red blood of patriotic American citizens staining the cold, naked, unsheathed knives. In the name...
...better. "Now the South is threatened by the President of the U.S. using tanks and troops in the streets of Little Rock. I wish I could cast one vote for impeachment right now.'' South Carolina's Senator Olin Johnston went even further. "If I were Governor Faubus," he said, "I'd proclaim a state of insurrection down there, and I'd call out the National Guard, and I'd then find out who's going to run things in my state...