In practice, what Mr. Leonard's title means is Assistant Attorney General in charge of desegregating Southern schools-and, as WFB puts it, "in applying himself to a program of rigid integration, he has made many enemies," the more so because this is not what Southern voters expected of the Nixon Administration. The hour at first bogs down a little in hypotheticals, but we then get to a productive discussion of dual school systems versus de facto segregation, of racial balance versus simple desegregation, and of the beginnings of affirmative action. WFB: "Why should you be puzzled by what the Supreme Court would say? Is the Supreme Court that much of an enigma?" JL: "You asked the question. I didn't. I'm not puzzled. I'm sure-" WFB: "Suppose I were President of the United States and I called you and said, 'Mr. Leonard, here we've got a situation in which everybody who is black elected to go to this school, and everybody who is white elected to go to this one, tell me, since you are in charge of these matters, is that legal?' Would you say, 'God knows, Mr. President. It depends on what side of the bed the Supreme Court woke up today'?" JL: "No. I think I would have to say that based on decisions and language that the Court has used in the past, it is likely that the Court would not accept that as being constitutional."