The Right to Nullify

The former Washington editor of the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ and present Washington editor of the ‘Cincinnati Enquirer’ discusses the ordeals of desegregation

The magisterial Walter George (D., Ga.), Nestor of the Senate, scarcely had finished intoning the Manifesto of the one hundred Southern statesmen when Wayne L. Morse arose to place the scene and the quarrel in historic perspective. Senator Morse (D., Ore.), voluble and articulate, who turned his coat during his present term for reasons having little to do with major controversies, professed to find the shade of John C. Calhoun “walking and speaking on the floor” in the person of Senator George.

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The former Washington editor of the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ and present Washington editor of the ‘Cincinnati Enquirer’ discusses the ordeals of desegregation

The magisterial Walter George (D., Ga.), Nestor of the Senate, scarcely had finished intoning the Manifesto of the one hundred Southern statesmen when Wayne L. Morse arose to place the scene and the quarrel in historic perspective. Senator Morse (D., Ore.), voluble and articulate, who turned his coat during his present term for reasons having little to do with major controversies, professed to find the shade of John C. Calhoun “walking and speaking on the floor” in the person of Senator George.