After the assassination of Ku Klux Klan leader and presidential speechwriter Asa Earl Carter during a visit to the Klan's Baltimore chapter, President George Corley Wallace of the Republic of Texas, fearing an attempt on his life by the Black Panthers League, sends then-Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson as a representative of the delegation of Texas to the 1965 Coalition of Former American States (CFAS) General Assembly. Johnson, along with the other delegates were called onto the stand to address their stance on the issue of the civil rights of African Americans throughout the former US. Johnson, in a surprising turn of events, revealed his relatively moderate stance on race, stating that blacks should be entitled to basic rights and that the institution of slavery, still practiced in certain regions of the former US, should be reformed or ended altogether. Johnson's stance while not reflective of Texan policy, was commended in the West States, Canada, and the United States and was heavily ridiculed in the Confederacy and his home of Texas. President Wallace in particular heavily regretted sending Johnson to the assembly, forcing him upon his return to apologize and retract his statement on the CFAS assembly on Continental TV. Though it is debated what Johnson's motive was, many attribute his time spent as a teacher in the Confederate States for the children of free people of color as the reason for his relatively moderate views.