strong segregationist group really starts a huge campaign in the summer of 1957, and starts badgering faubus in the news, the school board panics, and especially virgil blossom panics. they knew each a long time, worked in education together in northwest arkansas. blossom starts going to see faubus every day, calls him six times. faubus says he badgered him, "shadowed me, became a nuisance because he was always there saying what are you going do? are you going to help us if there are difficulties, if there is violence in the fall? will you call out the national guard to enforce integration?" faubus says no, i'm going to enforce integration. this is your plan, virgil, this isn't my plan. i don't want to have anything to do with it. my view has always been hands off. my view has always been if a community wants to integrate, that's fine, they can integrate, i'm not going to stop it. but if they don't want to integrate, i just said in the election last summer, no city will be forced to integrate against its will. so many things happened through the summer to increase blossom's panic. he takes a