Later after the dinner was over, Ike took Warren by the arm and walked with him to the sitting room. “These are not bad people,” he said of the Southerners who were defending themselves in the segregation cases. “All they are concerned about is to see that their sweet little girls are not required to sit in schools alongside some big black bucks.” It was the first sign that the President and the Chief Justice were going to part ways on the most important case before the Supreme Court.
