ABSTRACT
“The Court was right on Brown and wrong on Green,” Richard Nixon told a few of us in June 1968. That fundamental attitude toward two landmark cases in the field of education persisted throughout his Presidency. He felt strongly that school desegregation was right; more desegregation was accomplished during his first term than in the fourteen years since the Brown v. Board of Education decisions of 1954. Nixon felt equally strongly that compulsory integration of schools was wrong, especially when achieved by the technique of busing pupils long distances away from their homes, a requirement some lower courts drew from the Green v. New Kent County decision of 1968.
