Yes, real seldom uttered truth about those in DC that helped in desegregation -

YES JUST ANOTHER DAMN PROGRESSIVE LIE....but hey wouldn't you do it to if you were literally rewriting history as it was happening....let along something that happened 60+ years ago?????????

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5885.html

HERE IS PART OF THE STORY FROM THE CLOWNS AT POLITICO.COM

Next week in Little Rock, Ark., former President Bill Clinton and several presidential candidates will commemorate perhaps America’s most important civil rights battle — the desegregation of Central High School.

Fifty years ago, Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus defied the federal government, tried to stop school integration and created the gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.

Thankfully, he lost. In the first and most important test of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling, federal law trumped state politics. Had integration failed at Little Rock, it’s hard to imagine it succeeding anywhere.

Sadly, if the past is prologue, those who convene next week at Central High will say the least about the man who did the most to defeat Faubus: President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

In 1997, Clinton stood at Central High and waxed poetic about the event’s significance in the civil rights struggle and in his own life. “It was Little Rock that made racial equality a driving obsession in my life,” he said. But in a 2,600-word elegy, Clinton mentioned Eisenhower only one time.

Clinton was not alone. For years, historians, like photo editors, have airbrushed the Little Rock scene so that Eisenhower hardly appears. Look closely: His vague image might still be seen at the picture’s edge. But if so, he is painted in shades of gray to note his supposed ambivalence.

Yet 50 years ago, Ike’s actions were not hard to see. They were bright, bold and bewildering to many leading Democrats. The political ancestors of today’s Democrats did not share the view that Ike didn’t do enough at Little Rock; they believed he had done too much.

Democrats on the 101st Airborne

As the 101st Airborne soldiers executed Eisenhower’s orders and escorted the Little Rock Nine into Central High in September 1957, many in the Democratic establishment convulsed with rage.

Democratic Sen. John Sparkman of Alabama, who had run against Ike in 1952 as Adlai Stevenson’s vice presidential nominee, complained that “occupying Little Rock has brought about further deterioration of relations and further embitterment between our Negro and white citizens.”

Even deadlier venom was spewed by Democratic Sen. Richard Russell of Georgia. In a letter to the White House, he explicitly compared the 101st Airborne troops to Hitler’s storm troopers.

Meanwhile, Russell’s protégé, Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, sought a middle ground in the soil of moral equivalence by saying, “There should be no troops from either side patrolling our school campuses anywhere.”

In a letter to former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, he sneered that the president “may find that getting the troops out is a much more difficult proposition than getting them in.”

Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts even more skillfully navigated the Little Rock minefield. “The Supreme Court’s ruling on desegregation of schools is the law of the land,” he told a reporter, “and though there may be disagreement over the president’s leadership on this issue, there is no denying that he alone had the ultimate responsibility for deciding what steps are necessary to see that the law is faithfully executed.”

In one sentence, Kennedy vaguely reassured Northern liberals that he backed the Brown decision while hinting to Southern Democrats that he did not wholly support the president’s actions.