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...governors typified the dilemma in which Orval Faubus had placed the South. Only one, Georgia's Marvin Griffin, was a rabble-rouser of the Faubus stripe. The four others, Florida's LeRoy Collins, Tennessee's Frank Clement, North Carolina's Luther Hodges and Maryland's Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, were moderates. But the emotional turmoil of the South had forced Collins, Clement and Hodges toward the side of Demagogue Faubus, even though most of them privately blamed him for the trouble. In Washington, they hoped to find a way to get federal troops out of Little...
Life of the Party. The President did not mention Orval Faubus by name, but it was Faubus, more than any other, who had confronted the U.S. with a choice between law and anarchy. During the previous three weeks, egged on by racists around him, he had stirred Little Rock into emotional turmoil. Ambitious for a third term, eager to win political support from Arkansas segregationists, he had thwarted a federal court integration order by calling out his National Guard to "prevent violence" in a city where none existed. What the National Guard was really being used...
...Pentagon was ready: informed that the President's order was on the way. Wilson rapped out his own instructions. The ground and air forces of the Arkansas National Guard were placed in federal service, safely out of the hands of Governor Orval Faubus. who had used them to defy the U.S. Government. Army Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor called Fort Campbell, Ky. and assigned the 327th Battle Group of his old outfit, the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, to bring law to Little Rock. Tough, battle-tried Major General Edwin Walker was placed in command...
...Orval Faubus had thus staked his political future on his claim that there would be violence in Little Rock. Almost single-handed he had created the reality of violence from its myth. After withdrawing his National Guard, he had taken off for the Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga., stopping on the way to see the Georgia-Texas football game at Atlanta. ("He's really lapping up the glory," said one of his fellow governors. "There were 33,000 people at the game, and every time they cheered a play, Faubus stood up and bowed.") The next...
...beginning. Karam, once a third-string halfback at Auburn (he is fond of recalling his days as an "All-American"), turned professional strikebreaker (he bossed a goon-staffed outfit called Veterans Industrial Association Inc.), then became a Little Rock haberdasher and a near, dear friend to Governor Orval Faubus. Last week, while his wife was with Orval and Alta Faubus at Sea Island, Jimmy Karam moved purposefully around the crowd outside Central High School, whispering here, nodding curtly there, ducking into a gasoline station to make telephone calls...