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Monument to Demagoguery. Orval Faubus, meanwhile, had flown back from Sea Island. Arriving in Little Rock, Faubus joked feebly: "I feel like MacArthur. I've been relieved of my job." But Orval Faubus had no intention of fading away. He holed up in his executive mansion and began working on a national television speech...
Governor Faubus, chief target of the injunction, had received word of his lawyers' walkout while lolling relaxed in a window seat at his executive mansion. Ever since calling out the National Guard he had warded off questions about his "evidence" of violence by promising to produce it in court. Yet his day in court had come, and neither the evidence nor Orval Faubus was there.* Upon hearing that he was no longer even represented (because he had wanted it so), Faubus called for pencil and paper, scratched out an extraordinary statement: "Now begins the crucifixion. There will...
...they were. The last dozen or so of the 250 National Guardsmen who had moved in on Central High School and the executive mansion two weeks before pulled out quietly as Orval Faubus was speaking. That left the city of Little Rock free to go on about its business-if Orval Faubus, by manufacturing the myth of violence, had not in fact whipped up the reality...
Even as Orval was basking in his new fame, pressures against him were building up. Across town from the executive mansion, U.S. District Judge Davies was reading a 400-page report prepared for him by the FBI, which had 50 agents comb the Little Rock situation. The report showed not a shred of evidence supporting Faubus' claim that Little Rock had been ripe for violence. Example: where Faubus had said Little Rock stores were selling out of knives and pistols ("mostly to Negro youths"), the FBI agents checked 100 shops, found that weapon sales had actually been below normal...
Then Hays went to Faubus, spent a quiet hour talking in the book-lined second-floor study of the executive mansion. By this time Faubus was worn thin under the increasing pressures. He agreed to cooperate fully (but not to capitulate). Brooks Hays called Adams and said that a telegram was on its way from Faubus to the President at Newport...