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North Dakota's Democratic Governor William Guy sent Wallace a telegram criticizing the "white conscience" of Alabama. Pianist Byron Janis protested by canceling a scheduled concert recital in Mobile. In city after city, civil rights groups mounted protest demonstrations. In Selma, the Negroes stood in nightlong vigils under the wary eyes of police. Selma's Negroes and a growing number of white ministers-and even several white Roman Catholic nuns from St. Louis-demonstrated, but they were kept in check, without resort to passion or clubs, by Public Safety Director Baker...
...that a presidential statement to the nation was in order, and he determined to make the Government's position unmistakably clear. Governor Wallace, who had remained largely incommunicado during all the ruckus, suddenly surfaced-and provided the President with the perfect opportunity to clear the air. In a telegram to the President, Wallace continued the fiction that "voter registration and voting rights are not the issues," requested a meeting with Johnson at the earliest possible time...
Alabama Governor George Wallace said he would come to Washington if granted an appointment with President Johnson. In a telegram to the President, Wallace said a solution leading to the cessation of civil rights demonstrations is urgently needed...
...Chairman William Paley and CBS President Frank Stanton, a onetime psychology professor whose somewhat academic manner is quite a contrast to Aubrey's sleek flamboyance. The session lasted 30 minutes, and almost no one knew it had taken place. But at 3 Sunday afternoon, Stanton sent a terse telegram to New York papers that Aubrey had "resigned," although his "outstanding accomplishments need no elaboration; his extraordinary record speaks for itself...
Copies of the covenant, which is sponsored by the Faculty and the Committee for Social Action at the Divinity School, have been sent by telegram to President Johnson, Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Alabama Governor George Wallace, and King...