The President of the United States dropped in on the South last week, and read his hosts a lecture on Upholding the Law. “The educated citizen,” he reminded Vanderbilt University, “has a special responsibility” in this regard: “by virtue of his greater understanding … he knows that law is the adhesive force of the cement of society, creating order out of chaos and coherence in the place of anarchy.” The same day the governor of Alabama, acting for his state, filed a suit in the United States Supreme Court that asked, in effect, whether the educated citizens of the Kennedy Administration are concerned with discharging this special responsibility, or merely with gassing about it.
Bozell
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