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...Kennedy that any school-aid bill this session was "dead as slavery." But the President insisted that his congressional leaders keep trying to turn up some compromise-almost any compromise-that would satisfy the House, where the issue of aid to public schools was roiled by religious rancor and segregationist distrust. Last week President Kennedy learned the hard way that Rayburn had been right. In the Administration's second major legislative defeat of the week, the House voted down a diluted school bill by the humiliating margin...
Atlanta's Police Chief Herbert T. Jenkins had anticipated every conceivable possibility of trouble, armed his men with a helicopter, dogs, and an armored car. As if to symbolize how most white people felt, a pretty drum majorette furiously attacked a sign-toting segregationist with her baton. The cops were so watchful that on the opening day of school they moved to arrest two loitering men who turned out to be FBI agents. The police did pull in six demonstrators, who got sentences of 30 to 60 days that were reduced, when the excitement subsided, to nothing...
Furthermore, by unanimous voice vote, the Negro delegates backed pending bills -opposed by the A.M.A.-to bring physicians themselves under the general benefits of social security. And they applauded Dr. Mason's attack on the practice in segregationist states of keeping Negro physicians from full membership in county societies and keeping them out of hospitals. A little bitterly, Dr. Mason urged the A.M.A. to discipline local societies that discriminate against the Negro physician. On this topic, perhaps dearest to the heart of Negro doctors, A.M.A.'s President Larson had nothing...
Last week, in an interview on Atlanta's station WBS-TV, Bobby Kennedy gave Segregationist Williams a blunt explanation for the difference in the Justice Department's reactions in Chicago and Alabama. "They are making an effort in Chicago to deal with the problem," he said. "The police are not standing back and waiting for people to be beaten up for ten or twelve minutes before stepping in. Where they know there is going to be disorder, they come in and try to deal with the problem. That's all we are asking...
...President must be criticized; the papers of the country have hung fire far too often. Yet there is no easily perceptible honesty of critical intention in the pointless snipes of (say) the civil rights reports: "Surely we are not to suppose that Kennedy believes in the justice of the segregationist position. But if not, we can only conclude that he is deterred by political considerations. He wants to roll his precious pork-barrels through. Or is the author of Profiles In Courage afraid of Lyndon...