The Kennedy Brothers: The Rise And Fall Of Jack And Bobby - Plot & Excerpts
The fact that no speech had yet been drafted was not the only reason his key advisors opposed the idea. The administration had provisionally reserved the spot for a telecast, expecting to announce that federal troops had taken over the campus of the University of Alabama to enforce the admission of black students, or possibly that Governor George Wallace had been arrested for physically blocking their entry. But the tense standoff had been resolved peacefully. Why give a speech, his advisors asked, when polling showed that the majority of white Americans felt that the president was moving too fast on civil rights? That afternoon Jack called Bobby and said he would do it anyway.The attorney general and assistant attorney general Burke Marshall showed up at the White House at around seven and sat down with the president in the Cabinet Room. Jack scribbled notes on the back of an envelope in preparation for his remarks. Shortly before airtime Sorensen produced a draft, but it had no concluding section.
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