Word: faubusism
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...Kennedy got during his first foray into the South in 4½ months. Since then, the civil rights issue has glowed red-hot. At Greers Ferry Dam and at a Little Rock fair later in the day, the crowds were curious and courteous, but not enthusiastic. And Governor Orval Faubus, who contends that
Barry Goldwater could beat Kennedy in Arkansas today, was not even polite. With the President sitting six feet away at the dedication ceremonies, Faubus blasted the Administration's civil rights program. Said he: "We observe a great deal of time and effort being spent in sponsoring unworkable proposals . . . that would go so far as to deprive a citizen of the right of trial by jury . . . and to take from the states even more of the rights guaranteed to them under the Constitution. To abridge or destroy these basic rights will constitute civil wrongs, even though the effort may masquerade...
Arkansas (6). An edge to Goldwater -especially if Governor Orval Faubus, a Kennedy critic, were...
...Good Horse Race." A favorite pastime was matching John Kennedy against Barry Goldwater, who would certainly be the South's choice for the Republican nomination. Governor Orval Faubus, whose state has not been carried by a G.O.P. presidential candidate since 1872, said that his private polls show Goldwater ahead by 10% to 15%. Georgia's Governor Carl Sanders, whose state has never gone Republican in a presidential election, said that a Kennedy-Goldwater contest would be "a good horse race...
...invitation to Teller raised angry protests that it was merely another device to embarrass the President. Conference Chairman Faubus, who had gone along with the invitation to begin with, changed his mind, rescinded the invitation. But Teller was already on the way. Messengers raced to intercept him at rail stations along the way. They missed him. But somehow, it seemed, Teller got the word. He never appeared in White Sulphur Springs and next morning was back in Washington. Teller explained vaguely that he had just gotten tired, decided to turn back, and left the train-just where, he could...