Judge Lincoln, Orval Faubus and Bill Clinton, Millard Fillmore

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Four stories of politics and history, starting with, the relationship between Bill Clinton and Orval Faubus. Clinton would see the segregation proponent Faubus on the television as young man and swell with rage, later he'd run against him. But the relationship, like anything with Clinton I guess, gets more complicated than that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
0:05.5	Hello all, Eric Rivenus with the most notorious podcast here.
0:09.6	Each week I interview an author or historian about a historical true crime, tragedy, or disaster.
0:16.7	Subject matter ranges from gunslingers to gilded age murder, to gangsters, to fires, to
0:22.4	pirates, to wild prison breaks.
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0:28.6	Please subscribe to most notorious on your favorite podcast app, Cheers, and have a safe
0:33.8	tomorrow.
0:58.6	Arville Flavis was governor of Arkansas in the 1950s.
1:10.2	His name becomes known well beyond Arkansas really all over the world during the little
1:15.4	rock crisis of 1957.
1:18.5	Because he uses the Arkansas National Guard to stop African Americans from entering
1:24.4	Little Rock Central High School as part of a federally ordered racial desecrigation.
1:31.5	There's a showdown with President Eisenhower and Eisenhower sent him a telegram.
1:36.8	The Constitution will be upheld by me and every legal means at my command.
1:42.1	They have a short conference.
1:44.4	Governor Flavis actually removes National Guard troops initially, then when the mayor of
1:50.6	Little Rock, Arkansas, Woodrow Wilson, man, says a mob is formed at Central High School
1:56.0	to Little Rock, National Guard troops state police come back.
1:59.8	And what's more, they prevent African Americans from entering Little Rock Central High.
2:05.6	The guard was not called up to prevent integration, but to keep the peace and order of the community.
2:14.2	Based upon the premise that the peace and order of the community is paramount to add other
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