How did Nixon react to desegregation in the South?

Nixon opposed using federal power to impose desegregation and spoke against court-ordered busing. However, his administration continued enforcing desegregation requirements, and the number of African American students attending all-black schools declined. So he initially resisted desegregation but still oversaw a reduction in segregated schooling; he did not veto congressional desegregation laws as choice C claims.

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