Hays, Brooks

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Speech on the need for conciliation 3 While more communities seem to be involved in present tensions than previously the disharmonies that appear to be new are no greater, actually violence on a larger scale might have been anticipated in an earlier period. Perhaps you will agree that I have lived pretty close to the problem and that my hopeful observations as a Southerner should be shared with you. First it is clear that the President acknowledges that responsibility for maintenance of order rests primarily with the States and municipalities. At the same time there is a constitutionally defined authority for limited participation by Federal officials and this takes the form of civilian or military policing only where without it there would be widespread violence. In this delicate area the Pres. [President] has exemplified the principle advanced by James Madison that reciprocal forebearance by State and Federal governments is essential. I believe too that in the spirit of forebearance State and local officials may appropriately permit

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