Hays, Brooks

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Typed letter to Hays' father regarding breakfast meeting with Chief Justice Earl Warren February 11, 1957 Dear Dad: When I wrote you the other night about my breakfast with Chief Justice Warren, I did not tell you of all the interesting sidelights in our conversation. He is awfully good company, and in addition to the things I told him about you which I referred to in the other letter, he wanted to hear about Arkansas, also about my Baptist background. Mrs. Warren was the daughter of a Baptist minister. Both families were Scandinavian and he told me that one of the most enjoyable parts of their trip to Europe last year was a visit to the island in the Baltic Sea where she was born. They have been very happy in their Baptist work in California, but as you would guess, he is not at all sectarian. He said that when he was elected Governor and before he took office, he had a visit with the Archbishop who said to him, "Now Governor, you will find people coming to you to say 'the Archbishop wants this or the Archbishop does not want this.' You just tell 'em to go to hell!" He was interested in what I told him about our opposing the Ku Klux Klan back in the twenties, and said he had to send a bunch of the Klan officials to jail when he was district attorney during that same period. He is interested in the National Conference...

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