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Perkins:

No, I don't think so. But it will take more than being speeded up by some bright fellow that's had a political vision, to do it. It's going to take a good many years.

Q:

Well, sure, nobody would expect -

Perkins:

Twenty. Thirty.

Q:

it to be done right off the bat, but when the Governor stands up and proclaims he's dead against the Supreme Court decision, he himself, a former Supreme Court member, it's a curious piece of business.

Perkins:

Well, I wouldn't like to tell you what I think of the Supreme Court decision on the matter.

Q:

Do you disagree?

Perkins:

Why, I think it was terrible. It was a purely political decision, and I think it should never have been made. I do indeed. I don't know how they got it. I mean, Earl Warren is a very diplomatic fellow, and he talked them into it. But there's more to be said on it than they said.

Q:

Well, it seems to me that the thing is so darned long overdue

Perkins:

Oh my dear fellow, now look here. No - it's not





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