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I remember saying to him more than once, “My advice is not to say these things are intolerable.” Those were the words being used - intolerable, reprehensible, illegal, immoral. “We shouldn't say this unless we have a course of action which we will immediately put into effect.”

“I agree with you,” he said. “You've got to know what you're going to do, and what can we do?”

“Well,” I said, “what do you think we can do? You're a lawyer.”

“Ah,” he said, “stop your nonsense.” Whenever I wanted to tease him or tell him how much more he knew than I did I just said, “Well, you're a lawyer.”

I told the President what we had discussed. He discussed it with other lawyers too. He knew what this narrow line was. It was clearly a local matter. If it was disorder, it was a local disorder. It was the duty of the police authorities of the locality to deal with a local disorder. If it was beyond the capacity or the will of the local police authorities, it was the duty of the Governor of the state to deal with the local disorder. He had a variety of methods open to him to deal with a local disorder. Among them he had a state militia which he would call out to keep order, to defend property, to defend life. If this property was in hazard, these