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Orval Faubus, who had been dignified the previous weekend by a conference with the President of the U.S. (TIME, Sept. 23), returned from Newport all full of himself, soon gave up any pretense of living up to his implied agreement to start withdrawing National Guard troops from Little Rock's Central High School. He desperately tried to whip up backers for his claim that Little Rock had been about to erupt into violence at the start of integrated classes. Example: he called in a Little Rock city official, displayed a schoolbook with a square section of pages...
...vacation White House in Newport, R.I., aides to Eisenhower were swift to say he had nothing to do with the order. Press secretary James C. Hagerty denied that the President was aware of th order and had anything to do with its issuance...
...Faubus flew back to Little Rock, where political trouble awaited him on both hands. He had infuriated his former liberal following by calling out the National Guard in the first place. Now he stood to infuriate segregationists if he withdrew the Guard. Orval Faubus had not exactly surrendered at Newport. But he was withdrawing to a position that he had yet to prepare...
...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...
...telegram was delivered to President Eisenhower just as he holed out on the 435-yd. first hole at the Newport Country Club. The President read it slowly. Press Secretary James Hagerty scratched an answer in pencil on the back of the telegram, handed it to the President. Ike changed a word or two, initialed the bottom: "DDE." The historic confrontation was arranged between the President of the U.S. and a governor of Arkansas who had wrought a lot more than he could handle...