| Summary: | In the message Wallace maintains that the president's dispatch of federal troops to Birmingham, Alabama, was unconstitutional. He insists that local government officials and state troops "are able and have not failed or refused to suppress domestic violence which has occurred." He also refers to a group of white citizens who have been trying to negotiate an end to the civil rights demonstration: "Each of the lawfully constituted officials of the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, and State of Alabama has publicly denied having any knowledge of any so-called agreement, and has unequivocally denied the authority of any group of white citizens to negotiate with the lawless mobsters who had been leading the negroes of Birmingham in weeks of violence and lawbreaking until this violence was put down by local and state law enforcement officers."
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