Word: segregationism
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The President said that segregation of pupils must be eliminated root and branch, and that it must be done at once. School desegregation is a racial problem. It's raw racial prejudice, and there's no other name for it.
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 be sure, the goal of the Administration is not complete integration. When Nixon made his March 24 desegregation statement, he drew a line between segregation sanctioned by official policy (de jure) and that resulting from segregated housing patterns (de facto). Nixon has long been opposed to busing purely for...
Whores in Church. There is nothing particularly altruistic about the Administration's course. Pressure from the courts to end de jure segregation remains strong. What is more, Nixon's political strategists plan to leave George Wallace with an empty issue in 1972. In Wallace's successful campaign...
WORDS, like trees, bend with the prevailing winds. In the climate of opinion of the past few years, the word dissent has undergone a decided transformation. For most of U.S. history, it clearly meant speech-the unorthodox opinion, the challenging idea. Then, during the 1960s, civil rights protesters took to...