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...Were Governor." "Eisenhower has lit the fires of hate,'' intoned Mississippi's Senator James Oliver Eastland. Alabama's Governor James Elisha ("Kissin' Jim'') Folsom pledged that he would disband Alabama's National Guard before he would let Eisenhower order it into federal service. "We still mourn the destruction of Hungary," said Georgia's Senator Herman Talmadge, going his colleague, Dick Russell, one 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...
...Texas' Democrat Price Daniel, New Hampshire's Republican Lane Dwinell, Kansas' Democrat George Docking, Nebraska's Republican Victor Anderson. From Washington came a high-powered delegation headed by new Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson, Labor's Jim Mitchell, Health, Education and Welfare's Marion Folsom, and Budget Director Percival Brundage. Together they formed a serious action committee, and before the session broke up two days later, they had plotted one of the 20th century's most revolutionary programs: a pilot plan to return some important federal powers and responsibilities to the states...
Kiss of Death. Health. Education and Welfare Secretary Marion Folsom tried to revive interest by calling a special press conference to report the President was still behind the bill. Then he went off to the White House to discover that the President was not about to issue any ringing endorsements. Next day Ike's position became clearer. Leaving a White House conference, House Minority Leader Joe Martin reported the President "not entirely satisfied" with the compromise. But, said Martin: "I think that in all probability the Administration will accept it as a starter if passed by Congress...
...backed the measure. Republicans said the ax came from Howard Smith and Southern Democrats. The White House professed "great disappointment that the House did not see its way clear to pass a measure to meet this critical shortage of schools." The only one who said nothing was Marion Folsom. He, apparently, had said too much before the voting began...
...spring: shrink the city limits by some 50%-and in such a way as to reduce Tuskegee's Negro population to about 400, its registered Negro voters to nine. Both houses unanimously passed Engelhardt's gerrymander bill, sent it on to Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom...