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...major goal of the President's preventive leadership was to bolster the persuasion potential of the state committees, which have been carefully nurtured by key White House aides, including Robert Mardian, a conservative who is staff director of Nixon's Cabinet Committee on Education. Composed of about 20 members each, the committees have no statutory power. But the members are mainly professionals, business leaders and educators of both races who carry influence in their states on economic and school issues. They have stuck their necks out to take on the job of trying to persuade local communities...
...districts had been warned repeatedly by a surprisingly tough team of negotiators, headed by Robert Mardian, executive director of President Nixon's Cabinet Committee on Education (TIME, July 6). Named last week was the State of Mississippi, where the Government charged that state officials were trying to maintain the dual systems imposed by the state Constitution in defiance of the federal Constitution. Other suits were directed at 14 districts in Florida, nine in Arkansas and ten in South Carolina. The Administration insists that when schools open in September, 97% of all black pupils in the South will be enrolled...
...Mardian, along with Assistant Attorney General Jerris Leonard and HEW Civil Rights Chief J. Stanley Pottinger...
...Robert Mardian, executive director of Richard Nixon's Cabinet Committee on Education, has earned the grudging nickname of "the Mixmaster" from Southerners for using just such tough language with local officials who still maintain separate school systems for blacks and whites. For an Administration widely thought to be wedded to a "Southern strategy," the new hardline tactics add up to a welcome drive to end de jure segregation in the South. Elliot Richardson, sworn in last week as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Robert Finch, his predecessor, have vowed publicly that by the time Southern schools reopen...
Last week Phoenix and Charter Government breathed easier. Carrying his six councilmen with him, Mayor Mardian defeated Hanner 32,880 to 13,019. But the battle was not necessarily over. Lacking money and experienced candidates, the Stay American Committee had done surprisingly well with its odd charges against responsible conservatives. "We've just begun to fight," said Kay Westermann, a housewife and a founder of the committee. "We ain't beat...