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Clear & Contrite. That afternoon President Eisenhower and Governor Faubus issued separate statements. The President made clear what he considered the key point of the conference: "The Governor stated his intention to respect the decisions of the U.S. district court, and to give his full cooperation in carrying out his responsibilities in respect to these decisions . . . I am sure it is the desire of the Governor not only to observe the supreme law of the land but to use the influence of his office in orderly progress of the plans which are already the subject of the order of the court...
After the conference a smiling President and a wan governor walked down the stairs into a cluster of newsmen. "The President and I have had a very friendly and constructive conference," said Faubus. Said President Eisenhower: "Good to see you." Replied Faubus: "Thanks." Then they parted...
Then Governor Faubus flew back to Little Rock, where political trouble awaited him on both hands. He had infuriated his former liberal following by calling out the National Guard in the first place. Now he stood to infuriate segregationists if he withdrew the Guard. Orval Faubus had not exactly surrendered at Newport. But he was withdrawing to a position that he had yet to prepare...
...Orval Faubus entered his second-floor study bent double, hands clutching his abdomen. He greeted a visitor perfunctorily, collapsed into a contour chair, groaning in the agony of too much sweet corn and too many sweet potatoes the night before. His wife popped anxiously into the room, carrying a tray; Faubus peered distastefully at the stewed chicken and rice. "Put that rice in a bowl," snapped he, "so I can put some milk on it." But this, protested Alta Faubus, was what the doctor had ordered. "I don't care!" cried Faubus...
...sore stomach." Arkansas National Guardsmen were deployed around his salmon-pink executive mansion, warding off all. Other militiamen surrounded Little Rock's Central High School, ready to defend it to the death against Negro children trying to attend classes. And even as Governor Faubus defied his doctor's orders, the shock waves of his defiance of the U.S. Government crashed through the South, the nation and the world...