Word: segregationist
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...maneuver to co-opt George Wallace's constituency and placate other whites who think that blacks have come too far too fast. "The Administration," says Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward, "is in tune with the reaction and quite accommodating to it." The White House greeted questions about the segregationist amendments with ambivalence. When Senate G.O.P. Leader Hugh Scott, for example, tried to head off the Stennis amendment with a more innocuous rider, Presidential Counsellor Bryce Harlow sent around a note saying, "Your amendment is Administration language." But, Harlow added, "other approaches would also accord with the President...
...Then a U.S. Attorney, he had invested $100 to help finance the conversion of a public golf course into a private club when public facilities were being forced to integrate. Carswell now denies any racial motives. In Tallahassee at the time, however, it was viewed as a segregationist effort...
Much of the uproar came about as a result of the way the Muslims got their land. Ray Wyatt, 41, a gospel-singing segregationist, is hardly the sort to advance the cause of the black man. Yet it was he who sold his 376-acre Big Beaver Ranch to the Muslims for $115,000 last May. He claims that he did not know he was dealing with the Muslims at the time. But there was little doubt of Muslim involvement in July, when Wyatt and a local dentist, Dr. Robert McClung, sold the Muslims an additional 541-acre parcel...
...were not really aimed at the policies that have made Rusk persona non grata among liberals in the North. His target was Rusk's liberalism on the race issue. Rusk, who remembers his own humble origins in Georgia's red-clay Cherokee County, long ago antagonized his segregationist former neighbors by his support for civil rights legislation. He shocked them even more two years ago when he acquiesced to his daughter's marriage to a Negro...
Needling the North. The Administration belatedly switched signals to avoid the embarrassment of backing a segregationist ploy already ruled unconstitutional. HEW civil rights lawyers pointed out that if the original Whitten amendment passed, the Administration would have little choice but to denounce it as such, or to institute a quick court test to underline the point. Either way, the Administration would have been forced into taking direct actions repugnant to the South, countermanding the Congress and endangering future HEW appropriations...