Chapter Thirty-Eight: Another Big Event
June is the most headache month because of the preparation for the final exams of the school year.
Although the grades are only "pass" and "fail".
But Edward and Chris didn't take it lightly, transcripts are one thing, how much you learn and make a good impression in the minds of professors is what matters.
Don't look at the embarrassment of the professorial committee and the school committee being forced by Hansen and others to sign a lot of humiliating treaties, this is due to the general environment, not that the professors have no energy.
Yes, in law school, they may be just bald teachers with heavy glasses and outdated clothes, but if the historical itinerary comes, they will become a dividend partner in a big law firm or a government legal adviser or a circuit court judge, and the school is like a sanatorium for them, a place to relax and unwind, and when they are recuperate, they will show their might.
What do you mean?
Personal struggles and historical journeys should be taken into account, and the professors also understand that now they should lie down obediently and don't resist fearlessly, so they quickly let Hansen and others run over themselves on the giant ship of the times, and then get up and pat the soil on their bodies again.
Now that they have been wronged so much, Edward and other top students understand that as long as they study hard to be a good baby, they will definitely have good fruits to eat in the future.
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"Hey, get up" On the morning of June 5th, Chris was outside frantically knocking on Edward's door.
"Damn, what are you doing! Although today is the author's birthday, he is so on the street, just ignore him. If he dares to retaliate against us for letting us drive tanks, then this book will not have a single subscription! Not a single one! Don't even subscribe to the stolen post! So ignore that bastard. Let me sleep again! Last night, I watched criminal law and saw more than three o'clock! ”
"Open the door, something is wrong!" Chris lun slammed his fist on the door, sounding like an indigenous African warrior beating the drums of war: "RFK assassinated!" ”
"What!" Edward jumped out of bed, pulled the door open, and rushed into the living room.
The TV was broadcasting: "This is FAKE NEWS rolling news, in the early hours of the morning, former Attorney General, former President John F. Kennedy's younger brother, Robert F. Kennedy was attacked by a gunman during a speech at the State Guest Hotel in Los Angeles, the president was shot in the head, and was immediately taken to the hospital, and is still in full rescue!" ”
"FXXK" Edward was shocked, what is this?
In the history of the United States, I only heard about the assassination of the president, how can I stand it now, and even kill the candidate?
"You don't talk about FXXK," Chris reminded
"I know, otherwise it's easy to leak out in court."
"No, because this is the author's mouth habit designed for Féricet, if you use it too much, it will weaken the reader's impression of Férichet, and the supporting characters are not vivid and unlikable to readers is also one of the main reasons why online articles hit the street, and the author is very careful." Big Black patiently explained.
"Uh...... I don't know what you're talking about, but I think it makes sense. "Edward spreads his hands" Okay, it's lively now, if you don't make it good, your annoying old governor will have a high probability of turning the tables. ”
"Wallace is disgusting." Chris replied earnestly.
"yes, that's a pretty head-scratching name," Edward muttered.
George Wallace, a former Alabama governor and staunch supporter of segregation, even stood in front of the Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in '63 to prevent black students from registering as a mantis gangster, as a way to prove that he would keep his campaign promise to support segregation.
To this end, General Secretary John F. Kennedy also ordered Katzenbach, assistant to the federal attorney general and deputy attorney general, to rush to the scene with federal bailiffs to ensure that black students can attend school at all costs, including demanding that the governor resign immediately and leave the country as a special envoy of the federal president.
Wallace, however, did not buy face, and instead of listening to persuasion, he angrily denounced Katzenbach and made a public speech that this was a serious violation of the rights of the state, and as governor he strongly protested and declared that he would mobilize the National Guard to assist him if necessary.
The English name of the National Guard is United States National Guard, which is more appropriately translated as state soldiers, which are the armed forces of each state and are under the orders of the governor. It was also used as a check and balance to limit the expansion of federal power at the beginning of the country.
Governors are elected by one vote, and it is common for them to make speeches eight times a day in order to canvass for votes, while the assistant to the federal attorney general is appointed by his superiors, and both may have similar working ability, and even the latter is stronger.
But in terms of mouth cannons, the latter can only be beaten by the former, and the mouth cannon is a traditional Milican art, and the governor or federal congressman can be an idiot, but it must not be a stammer.
Katzenbach could only call the president on the spot for help.
And John F. Kennedy was also the master who dared to think and do, and at the sound of an order, the National Guard in Alabama was federalized.
This is also part of the country's system of checks and balances, where the president has the power to make the National Guard a national army if necessary, rather than the state's own armed forces.
It was not without precedent that the big boss of the National Guard changed from Wallace to Kennedy in an instant, and Eisenhower first played this hand in Little Rock in '57, but the pressure was even greater, so it wasn't long before the 101st Airborne Division of the Federal Army took up its first military mission on the territory.
John F. Kennedy also showed the Federacy's toughness, and if it didn't work, then the Union Army would be involved
Wallace could only give in in a sloppy manner.
When Edward thought of these things, a picture suddenly appeared in his mind, three black students were able to enter the auditorium under the protection of the National Guard for enrollment procedures, one of them walked in a hurry, the notebook under his arm fell to the ground, and a tall but slightly stupid male white college student picked up the notebook and handed it back to the owner.
Immediately, the white male college student ran as hard as he could on the football field, and after completing the touchdown, he still ran off the field, still muttering to himself, "Mom said life is like a box of chocolates." ”
Wallace and the Democratic Party completely parted ways after the blockade incident, and he was like a teenager on the road of apartheid, and soon announced that he would quit the Democratic Party, and then joined the Independence Party to participate in the presidential election, which turned out to be very popular in the southern region.
The popularity based on racial discrimination certainly displeased Chris.
"Come, councillors, pay attention to that cry, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the corridor," Edward began to hum softly, it was a Bob Dylan song, and it was clear that Wallace had been written into it, and would live on for a long time.
"Don't offend anyone who is engaged in creation, if you don't agree with each other, it becomes the creative material, by the way, there was someone in the last life, a beautiful fox-eyed Yanma, whoever fell in love with her, who would become the protagonist of the new song...... Look at it, it's the same creation, and the humanistic care of the younger generations is much worse than that of the predecessors...... "Someone's heart is starting to run the train again."
"What are you thinking?" Chris noticed that Edward didn't move, only his eyes kept blinking.
"I'm thinking about ......," Edward opened his mouth slowly, apparently with every word well thought out, "whether to defect to the Republican Party." ”
"......" The honest black big man didn't react for a while.
"......" The honest black big man fell into the process of reacting.
"......" The honest big black man finally reacted.
"You're not doing much, right?" The big black man finally spoke.
"What's wrong, I'm not a registered member of the Democratic Party."
"But you're still working for George Duffy."
"What's wrong with that? I helped him run for the House of Representatives, not for him to run for president. ”
Edward explained: "You think, RFK is dead, no one can carry the anti-war banner in the party for a while, but the withdrawal from Vietnam is the common aspiration of the people of the whole country, Nixon on the Republican side was originally a veteran politician, and he accidentally lost to JFK last time, and this time he had a big chance of winning, that is, RFK can get a lot of sympathy points to have a dozen with him, and now he is dead, then Nixon must be in power in this year's election, right......"
Chris was a little unacceptable: "You're too utilitarian, aren't you......?" It's important for people to have a little faith. ”
"My faith? Franklin, of course ($100 on the ticket)"
"Damn, I forgot your bloodline!" Chris ignored him and watched the news on his own.
Edxia said stupidly, "I'm just talking, I have to think about it again, the line of fire is not good for the person, after all, I am still young, I can afford to wait, the ancient Chinese saying is that the icing on the cake is not as good as sending charcoal in the snow." ”
"Snorr" came from the other side of the sofa with a deliberate snoring sound.
"Damn" Edward gritted his teeth and was furious in his heart, "you black bastard, next time I threw you into the cotton field, see if you dare to be lazy!" ”
But then I thought about it, if I went back to that era, the big black man was picking cotton, and he couldn't do well to build a railway in the west...... This TMD is not as good as a slave, a slave is a fixed asset of the slave owner, and if he eats and drinks and is sick, he will ask for a doctor, and the Chinese worker will be a proper consumable material, and he will throw it away when he is finished, which is similar to that of the Irish......
The explosion left the nation stunned, and the assassination of RFK's brother JFK (John F. Kennedy) just five years ago was transmitted to the world through cameras, and the youngest president in history left.
Now that his younger brother, Robert Kennedy, who is considered the favorite for the next president, was also killed by a gunshot, and thinking of their elder brother, Joseph Kennedy, who died on the battlefield, even the atheist Edward felt a chill in his back at the moment, and the family seemed to have offended something, so that tragedies continued to happen to them one after another.
But immediately he pondered again, should he go to the gambling company to buy some gambling? He vaguely remembered that in the miscellaneous books he saw in his previous life, these four brothers were one by one according to their talents, leaving the most incompetent fourth to be a senator for a lifetime, and lived peacefully until old age. At the moment, the inhuman goods of the bookmaker will definitely open the market of whether Edward Kennedy will die, and the small bet seems to be good.
Chris was hit harder, first, because Robert F. Kennedy was a staunch anti-racist and supporter of the affirmative action movement, and second, because the Kennedys were Catholics; John F. Kennedy was the only Catholic (or Orthodox president) in the history of the United States, and he was of the same sect as Chris.
In his eyes, Robert F. Kennedy is almost the embodiment of his brother, inheriting people's pity and love for JFK, so he is a favorite in this year's presidential election, and George Wallace is seen as a companion.
Can ...... now
Chris began to draw the cross again, and the words came out of his mouth.
This state is very familiar, when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated two months ago, this guy was so chattering, and it took a long time to recover, and it was not normal for him to be beaten back to a god stick state in a few days.
Edward was worried about this, Chris is a good assistant, but now he is obviously far from normal, how can he come to his senses?
The group of people in the seminary can be bought with Playboy, but what about this guy?
Give him a copy of "The Attic"?
Forget it, the end may be that he was beaten out by a Mongolian bully.
"Hey, the last half of my life is said to have witnessed history, but it's a P compared to the present! It's a really exciting day. It's more exciting than being a thief! ”
On the way to class, the "liberated areas" were much quieter than usual, and the brains of this group of people were not completely burned out by alcohol and drugs, and they usually demonstrated and protested as if they were playing, and they also knew that the laws and force of the country could guarantee their safety, and the presidential candidate, who was the pride of the sky, was shot in the blink of an eye after announcing his victory in the state elections, and a dark cloud of uneasiness enveloped the "liberated areas."
The sky is no longer a sunny day, and a class of waste wood is no longer good to like, after pondering for a while, I found that this thing has too much information, or fly a few mouthfuls to make the spirit drift.
The days went on until the end of the exam.
When Edward returned to New York, the Big Apple was always so vibrant, and no bad news seemed to affect its mode of operation, and the pace and quality of life here never seemed to be disturbed.