Word: orval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine example of life imitating art, see the Cover Story in NATIONAL AFFAIRS, What Orval Hath Wrought...
...meeting began at 8:50 a.m. on a grey, sticky morning last weekend, after a marine helicopter put Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus down on the lawn of Dwight Eisenhower's vacation headquarters at Newport, R.I. First the President and the governor talked alone for 20 minutes behind the drawn blinds of a tiny office. Then they moved to an adjoining room for a two-hour conference with Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., White House Staff Chief Sherman Adams, and Arkansas' Democratic Representative Brooks Hays, who had helped arrange the meeting (see below...
...would work firmly and patiently through the courts to enforce the desegregation ruling of the Supreme Court. There could be no backing away from this position. Therefore there could not be, and there was not, any agreement, implied or stated, to delay integration in Little Rock. For his part, Orval Faubus did not promise to remove the National Guard from Little Rock's Central High School and permit Negro children to enter. But there was a general understanding that some time this week Faubus would begin withdrawing the Guard and turning law enforcement back to Little Rock authorities...
...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
...likely to instigate reprisals against the governor. But the U.S. is nonetheless determined to move through the courts, slowly, deliberately, sensibly, to win the battle and safeguard the Constitution. This was the determination, in the spirit of Marshall and Madison, that underlay the cold message sent to Orval Faubus last week by President Eisenhower...