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...Little Rock. Governor Orval Faubus. Arkansas' Galahad of segregation, gave the Kennedy-Johnson ticket a gingerly endorsement, but made it clear that he will have no truck with the Democratic platform, especially its hateful civil rights plank. In Tallahassee, Farris Bryant, the Democratic candidate for Governor (and, in effect, Governor-elect) reached the same split decision, gave Jack Kennedy a grudging nod while deploring the "repugnant" civil rights program. In Washington, the grey eminence of diehard Dixiecracy. South Carolina's Strom Thurmond announced that he could stomach neither the "obnoxious and punitive" platform nor Candidate Kennedy. ¶During...
...Lady Bird, Jack Kennedy's sister Eunice, and Bobby Kennedy's wife Ethel left Washington last week and headed West on the first all-female foray of the presidential campaign. Disturbed by reports of Texas' growing unhappiness with Lyndon Johnson for supporting the liberal civil rights plank in the Democratic platform, the ladies were determined to corral the female vote and save the Lone Star State for their party...
Other Troubles. Widespread talk about the Catholic issue tends to obscure other Kennedy Southern troubles. For one, Lyndon Johnson, the South's choice for President, has generally fallen from Southern grace in his role as Kennedy's running mate. Furious at the liberal civil rights plank in the Democratic platform, his old supporters accuse him of selling out, have coined a new reading for L.B.J.: "Let's Beat Judas." Southern conservatism is on the rise and, as Southern Senators made clear in Congress last week, the conservatives are not enthusiastic over their nominee. Complained one to touring...
...amounts to an invitation to disaster: a group of insurrectionists mistake Ebenezer for a secret agent of Baltimore's and all but succeed in a plot to murder him. Enroute to America he loses his commission, falls into the hands of pirates and is forced to walk the plank. Miraculously, he makes his way to shore, where he encounters a drug-ravaged hag who turns out to be the girl of his dreams-a former London prostitute named Joan Toast. Shaken by all this, Ebenezer innocently signs away the family property and sees the family manor Maiden, turned into...
...entitled to go into a store to buy products, and should have the same right as any other American to use all the facilities of that store without discrimination." And without saying anything to lose any Negro votes, he got over the idea that the Republican civil rights plank was less drastic than the Democratic...