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bravery in a radio message, saying all parents must have sympathetic understanding for the ordeal to which we nine children had been subjected. Now he issued a warning statement:

   I want to make several things very clear in connection with the disgraceful occurrences today at Central High School in the city of Little Rock.  I will use the full power of the United States, including whatever force may be necessary, to prevent any obstruction of the law and to carry out the orders of the Federal Court.

   He ended his long statement by demanding that all persons engaged in obstruction of justice "cease and desist."
   "At least we've got a President who respects the law," Grandma said, applauding.
   "There will be no school for you tomorrow, Melba," Mother Lois said.
   "But I'm going to school tomorrow, aren't I?" Conrad asked.
   "Perhaps.  We'll have to see how things go," Mother Lois said.
   "I'll be that mob will heed the President's words," Grandma said.    "Things will be back to normal tomorrow."
   But this time Grandma was wrong.  After a restless night, we awoke on Tuesday to find the mob had not heeded the warning of the President.  As early as 7:30A.M. more than two hundred people had gathered in front of Central High to protest our arrival.  The headlines read:

   IKE CLEARS WAY TO SEND TROOPS: COMMANDS CEASE AND DESIST IN LEGAL MOVE
 -Arkansas Gazette, Tuesday, September 24, 1957

   The article said that President Eisenhower signed a history-making proclamation clearing the way for possible use of federal troops to quash any further school integration violence in Little Rock.
   But next I read: FAUBUS CHALLENGES IKE ON USING TROOPS.  From Sea Island, Georgia, on September 23, Governor Faubus had declared that the President couldn't use federal troops to combat the Little Rock integration violence unless he, as governor, requested him to do so.  And he added, "I don't plan to make any such request."
   An even as I read those headlines, the announcer on the radio said the unruly crowd surrounding Central High was larger than it had been the day before.

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