Trump Displays Little Interest in Fostering Unity Amid Political Violence

After an assassination attempt, Gov. George Wallace, the segregationist, got a surprise visitor: Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman elected to Congress. Could this happen today?

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1965 Was the Last Time a President Bypassed a Governor to Deploy the National Guard

Before Saturday, the last time a president made use of Guard troops to deal with civil unrest without being asked to do so by the state’s governor was in 1965.

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