Word: southes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Listen! After the tremendous amount of money, arms, help and good U.S. blood we've poured into that area, if the South Vietnamese were anywhere near united in wanting the war won, it would have been won twice over. If they don't want it won, then what the hell are we doing? Going out looking for a fight...
Rebuff Ahead. Despite the importance of the Viet Nam speech, other events converged on the President demanding his attention. His address on Latin America, which proved more pragmatic than inspiring, drew a mixed response south of the border. The General Electric strike posed a threat to the economy (see THE WORLD and BUSINESS). Nixon was stung by the Supreme Court decision insisting on the instant school integration that he had earlier termed "extreme...
...With all deliberate speed" was the famous phrase used in the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision, commanding integration of the nation's public schools. The response in much of the South has been all deliberate resistance: 1,534 local districts in the Old Confederacy and Border States are still classified as segregated. Now the Supreme Court has run out of patience. Last week in Holmes v. Alexander-the first major judgment since Chief Justice Warren Burger joined the bench-the court unanimously ruled that the deliberate-speed formula "is no longer constitutionally permissible...
...probably end dejure segregation before the start of the 1970 school year, though full integration in the physical sense is a very different matter. At the same time, the judgment may well provoke confusion, scattered violence and, temporarily at least, some damage to public education in parts of the South...
...federal district court to get sanctions for the delay. The N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund fought the local decision up to the Supreme Court. Thus, ironically, the Administration's emphasis on working through the courts-an approach tending to make integration slower and less painful for the South-produced a Supreme Court demand for a faster pace...