Bum Phillips Quotes
I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.
Phillips, Bum. Quoted in Texas Monthly, vol. 6, no. 10, Oct. 1978, p. 134.
This quotation is one of the few times where history helped to implement policy. President Johnson & Singletary, a historian and ex University of Texas Chancellor, has decided that Camp Gary at San Marcos would serve as the first Job Corps urban center; enrollees from 6 different states were to be sent. The youth would be living in integrated quarters in proximity to San Marcos, whose citizens were concerned for the safety of their area and the virtue of their daughters. But most of the opposition was racial. One group to go was 100 youth from Memphis. Connolly’s staff had recommended that he veto the Tennesseans, and he sent a communication to Singletary asking him to withdraw the Memphis contingent as prevention to his veto. The phone was silent for a minute after Singletary’s statement. Then the governor replied, “We Texans are a lot of things but we are not ungrateful. OK we’ll take the Tennesseans, Otis, but make sure that they are nice boys and not too uppity.” History had won.
At that point the Japanese were losing the war on every front. It is not clear whether Hirohito would actually have done such and not tried to escape in the end, however he certainly expected his subjects, military and civilian to do so. That expectation and the behavior of the Japanese troops fighting to the death on many islands was a powerful factor in leading Truman, Marshall and other key American leaders to use the Atomic Bomb. See Marshall: {641063}
Oail Andrew "Bum" Phillips Jr. was an American football coach at the high school, college and professional levels. He served as head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for the Houston Oilers from 1975 to 1980 and the New Orleans Saints from 1981 to 1985. He was the father of NFL coach Wade Phillips.
