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No. I felt very strongly that Eisenhower was a fair-minded man of goodwill. And that if there were any opportunity for a settlement it would have to be between the president and myself on that basis. Therefore I did not take an attorney. Now I was misled in this respect. When I got there they had the attorney general of the United States there and I was not informed of that nor led to believe that there would be any such. The only person that I had with me was my executive secretary, Arnold Sykes, who was not a well-informed person on matters of that kind at all, and Brooks Hays, who hadn't practiced law for years, just been a member of Congress. I think he is a licensed attorney, not sure of that. Because I didn't think it could be settled by arguing over technical points or legal points. I felt it had to be some kind of understanding, a meeting of the minds, on the basis of goodwill, and that we both preferred harmony and peaceful methods rather than any other. And in that, I do not believe I was mistaken about President Eisenhower. But Eisenhower was not a man of his own. He had to rely, as he always had in the military, on staff. Second nature to him. And I'm not sure that he had the independence to rely completely upon himself. He was the most misinformed man about the si

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About

ORVAL EUGENE FAUBUS was born in Combs, Arkansas, on January 7, 1910. He briefly attended Commonwealth College, the radical labor school at Mena, Arkansas. He worked as an itinerant farmer, a lumberjack and a schoolteacher before enlisting in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1946 during World War II, with two years in the European Theater. He was decorated with the Combat Infantry Badge and the Bronze Star. After the war, Faubus served on the Arkansas State Highway Commission from 1949 to 1951 and as director of highways from 1952 to 1953. He was postmaster at Huntsville from 1946 to 1947 and from 1953 to 1954. Elected to the governorship in 1954 after a runoff, Governor Faubus initially pursued a liberal course in office, but to combat his political opponents who were staunch segregationists, he adopted a hard-line civil-rights position. In 1957, Governor Faubus gained national attention when he called out the Arkansas National Guard to prevent the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, but he was eventually forced to withdraw the Guard. After rioting broke out, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent U.S. troops to Little Rock and put the National Guard under federal command to ensure the integration of the school. Faubus’s political expediency resulted in hi

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Orval Faubus

Governor stop Arkansas stick up 1955 be a consequence 1967

Orval Faubus
Official portrait, 1959
In office January 11, 1955 – January 10, 1967
Lieutenant	Nathan Green Gordon
Preceded by	Francis Cherry
Succeeded by	Winthrop Rockefeller
Born	Orval Eugene Faubus (1910-01-07)January 7, 1910 Madison County, River, U.S.
Died	December 14, 1994(1994-12-14) (aged 84) Conway, Arkansas, U.S.
Resting place	Combs, River, U.S.
Political party	Democratic
Other political affiliations	National States' Rights Party
Spouses	Alta Haskins ​ ​ (m. ; div. )​ Elizabeth Westmoreland ​ ​ (m. ; died 1983)​ Jan Wittenburg ​ (m. 1986)​
Branch	United States Army
Years of service	1942–1946
Rank	Major
Unit	320th Infantry Regiment
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