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Robert C. Byrd: “Politicians and Federal judges and Federal bureaucrats can afford to send their own children to private schools or live…”

On the recordFebruary 16, 1970
Politicians and Federal judges and Federal bureaucrats can afford to send their own children to private schools or live in white suburbia, but in order to make political hay they vote for forced integration for everybody else's children. This is pure hypocrisy.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
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Feb 16, 1970

Editor's note · Context

Opposing forced integration and busing of schoolchildren.

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