Word: leadership
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fact, more than any other, pointed up the need for a change in the Administration's position. Dwight Eisenhower, honorably intending to stay above the battle and base his case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in fighting segregation. Without it, Southern moderates had no place to go. Without it, some of the most patient, effective integration programs were weakened as Southern die-hards mobilized their own legal resources to fight the battle for segregation in the name of states' rights...
Strange Alchemy. But the most important factor about Lindsay Almond's role is that he is the anti-integration straw boss for one of the nation's oldest, most powerful and in many ways most sophisticated political machines, led by Harry Byrd, a symbol of Southern leadership with the capacity and influence for achieving the greatest good-or the greatest evil...
...step into Harry Byrd's shoes, would fight with all his considerable skills to keep the Commonwealth of Virginia the way the Byrd machine wants it. The national tragedy is that the 66th Governor of the Commonwealth, at a time when the nation needs the type of enlightened leadership that is its due from Virginia, declines to step into the shoes of such Virginians as Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the builders of the Union...
President Pusey, commenting on Leighton's appointment, called it "the recognition of a well-deserved status for our non-resident undergraduate body." He said he was confident of "a promising new era for the non-resident student at Harvard" under Leighton's leadership...
...punches, promising 1) an eventual South African republic and 2) the achievement of strict racial apartheid. An active member of the Dutch Reformed Church, he identified his selection as Prime Minister with the dictates of God: "In accordance with His will, it was decided who should assume the leadership of the government in this new period of the life of the people of South Africa...