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...three years as Governor of Florida, rambunctious Republican Claude Kirk Jr. has made an antic art of what he calls "confrontation politics." Kirk frankly describes himself as a "tree-shakin' son of a bitch," and he has proved it repeatedly in headline-grabbing performances that range from the 1967 Jacksonville rally, at which he faced down Black Nationalist Rap Brown, to his performance last January on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, where he appeared waving a petition against recent desegregation rulings...
Last week Kirk put on his most spectacular tree-shaking performance ever. Within six furious days, the Governor 1) "overturned" a court decision on school busing by unilaterally declaring it "a horrible illegal act," 2) twice dismissed the duly elected school board of sleepy Manatee County on Florida's Gulf Coast, 3) ignored federal court orders to answer contempt charges, 4) ordered his men to resist federal marshals "with force," 5) installed himself as Manatee school superintendent, and 6) made a direct and lofty appeal for justice to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Governor's Club. The cause of Kirk's Samsonian ire was the Supreme Court's January order directing "immediate" desegregation in a number of school districts in Florida and four other Southern states. Although he is almost a liberal (by Florida standards) on racial matters, Kirk also knows an issue when he sees one. His voluble but futile protests had been doing wonders for his local political standing, which had sunk to a low ebb after his bumbling attempt to win the 1968 G.O.P. vice-presidential nomination and disclosures that much of Kirk's high living...
...cites numerous incidents in which the educational ideals of the university conflicted with its drive to preserve and expand its equity. Elsewhere he draws useful distinctions between Columbia's schizophrenic structure and the reasonable, though uninspired and often outdated men who attempted to manage it. Former President Grayson Kirk, for example, is viewed as an aloof, poorly informed man who rode around in a black Cadillac licensed GK-1. By contrast, S.D.S. Leader Mark Rudd shows a jungle instinct for the weakness of his elders; he emerges as a troublemaker, possibly useful as a goad in a good cause...
...Columbia trustees with their investment policies are the initial villains, along with Grayson Kirk, whose misdirection forced the conflict. Then the police became Kahn's villains during the bust. But aside from these two stereotypes, Kahn establishes and intelligent critique of a third group whose inaction forced the battle-the faculty...