“I do not believe that all of these problems can be solved just by a new law, or something that someone says, with teeth in it. For example, when we got into the Little Rock thing, it was not my province to talk about segregation or desegregation. I had the job of supporting a federal court that had issued a proper order under the Constitution, and where compliance was prevented by action that was unlawful.”

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Presidential news conference http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/all_about_ike/quotes.html (26 March 1958)
1950s

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American general and politician, 34th president of the Unit… 1890–1969

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