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Sharing the platform with Kilpatrick were two Southern liberals who did not view this process with such evident alarm. Hodding Carter, editor of a small-town Mississippi paper, agreed that liberalism is, and probably will remain, a "dirty word" in the South...
...military man's running estimate of Civil War generals: "Never in the war did Lee establish good staff work . . . The two best men the Union had were McDowell and Pope, until they got Meade . . . One of the biggest problems was keeping women out of Hooker's camp . . . Kilpatrick sent two brigades of Union cavalry to charge the southern flank, and they were butchered. That cavalry can't charge has been true since Ney tried to win at Waterloo...
...Things are changing in the South'" writes James Jackson Kilpatrick. the Richmond News Leader editor who five years ago revived the legal doctrine of "interposition" in an unsuccessful attempt to halt school integration. "I state the proposition for what it may be worth: For the first time in their lives, thousands of Southerners are beginning to see the Negro in a way they never saw him before. It is like getting new glasses . . . Aspects of segregation that once were the white's non-concern now trouble his spirit uncomfortably: Sit-ins. Segregated libraries. Certain job discrimination. Genuinely unequal...
...quick foray into North Carolina, he was stirred by the enthusiastic reception he got (see Republicans). Kennedy's Roman Catholicism was obviously hurting him in Baptist country. And Johnson was not proving to be the Southern darling everyone was led to believe. Wrote Richmond News Leader Editor James Kilpatrick fortnight...
Died. Brigadier General John Reed Kilpatrick, 70, longtime (1933-55) showman-president of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden; of cancer; in Manhattan. A Yale football great and All America ('09-'10), Kilpatrick was on the AEF general staff in World War I, commander of the Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation in World War II, won a proxy fight for control of the languishing Garden...