General Discussion

…federalizing the National Guard and integrating Southern schools after Brown vs. Board of Education. That event was formative to my worldview and thus the rest of my life — altho as a little Californian in the San Fernando Valley and then resident of Hawai’i from when it was a Territory until 1978, I did not experience segregated schools personally. To my parents he was a towering hero of WWII.

He deserves to be remembered for much more than one fairly modest response to America’s fear of “godless Communism, “ and for more than acknowledging Billy Graham long before there were Evangelicals and mega-churches.