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“The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold the constitutional processes in this country; and I will obey,” Eisenhower said shortly after the ruling.

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In two terms as president, Eisenhower combined what was, canada goose factory outlet vancouver at the time, the strongest record on civil rights since Reconstruction with a baffling rhetorical deference to white supremacists and a cold relationship with civil rights leaders.

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Ike offered only mild, abstract support for black activists integrating lunch counters (though that was more than many of his Democratic counterparts) and did not hold a serious policy meeting with black civil rights leaders until his second term. When Martin Luther King Jr. wrote Eisenhower asking he “lend the weight of his great office” to ameliorating canada goose outlet winnipeg the “state of terror” in the South, Eisenhower said, “I don know what another speech would do about the thing right now.” This was a war, and America greatest war hero was rhetorically absent.

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