Pres. John Kennedy vs Gov. Ross Barnett

Listning to the phone calls between President Kennedy and Governor Barnett of Mississippi was in my opinion, a battle between enlightment thinking and medieval thinking. The debate in which Meredith, the incoming black soldier could attend Ole Miss unsettled the Governor and he was fixed on not letting him in. On the other hand, President Kennnedy thought of the racial bigotry as illogical, meaningless, and a backwards way of thinking for America. The phone calls between these two politicians show the divide in ideas they had and how hard it is for people with two different mindsets have a hard time working together when not of the same mind.