[rustbucket]

How about Eisenhower’s 1957 justification for sending in Federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the law?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3851127/posts?page=15#15

[rustbucket]

I should have included you on my Post 229 since I linked to one of your posts from another thread.

[woodpusher]

How about Eisenhower’s 1957 justification for sending in Federal troops to Arkansas to uphold the law?

Eisenhower's justification was to enforce the order of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.

https://www.eisenhowerlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/research/online-documents/civil-rights-little-rock/dde-troops-to-arkansas.pdf

Eisenhower- handwritten

Troops— not to enforce integration but to prevent violent opposition by violence to orders of a court. . . . In Arkansas. Governor ordered out troops, armed and equipped and partially maintained by Fed Government with instructions to prevent execution of a plan proposed by School Board, approved by Fed Judge....