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Now, he claims that the campaign of McCain echoes the long-ago rhetoric of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. Is there a trend here. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Trentonian Editorial: Umpteenth Time, It's A Race Card Oct 15, 2008
He likened John McCain to Alabama's notorious segregationist governor, George Wallace. The news media - Obama's campaign surrogates - like to help out in any way they can. (The Trentonian, NJ)
Moran to Biden: Palin's Rhetoric Make You 'Concerned for Obama's Safety?' Oct 15, 2008
During the 7 AM half hour of Monday's CBS Early Show, correspondent Jeff Glor reported on a couple moments at recent McCain campaign events as evidence of harsh Republican attacks against Barack Obama: "A few recent fiery McCain campaign moments...Including one where McCain had to take the mic away from a woman who incorrectly called Obama an Arab." Glor went on to explain: "All of it led Democrat and civil rights leader John Lewis to issue a controversial statement, charging the Republicans... (MediaResearch.org)
McCain plays the race card Oct 14, 2008
HAVING FAILED to convince voters that they represent a break from the tragic Bush presidency, Republican presidential candidate John McCain and vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin are careening into George Wallace territory to destroy the nation's first African-American nominee, Democrat Barack Obama. How close. (Boston Globe)
Once in background, race now at the forefront Oct 14, 2008
John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat and civil rights leader, went as far as invoking George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, to accuse Sen. John McCain, the Republican nominee, of fomenting racial hatred. (Albany Times Union)
* McCain tones down negative rhetoric Oct 14, 2008
STRONG CRITICISM: A long-time civil rights activist and lawmaker slammed McCain and Sarah Palin for whipping up a climate of hate similar to Dixicrat George Wallace THE GUARDIAN, TAMARAC, FLORIDA Tuesday, Oct 14, 2008, Page 7 ... Lewis likened the attacks made by the Republican candidates against Obama to the climate of hate that was whipped up by governor George Wallace, a Democrat who held the governorship of Alabama intermittently over 30 years until 1982. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Dow booms for a day Oct 14, 2008
The idea that he would use George Wallace s name to describe the McCain/Palin campaigning is sickening. John Lewis is not to be criticized given the abuse against him during the civil-right marches, but John McCain can be compared to Wallace despite his heroic service to this country and torture as a POW.. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Obama's race remains a potent issue Oct 14, 2008
On Saturday, Representative John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat and civil rights leader, went as far as invoking George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, to accuse Senator John McCain, the Republican nominee, of fomenting racial hatred. For Lewis and many other Democrats, the recent heckling of Obama at Republican rallies - where he has been called Arab, Muslim, traitor, terrorist, friend of terrorists, Barack Hussein Obama - amounts to code words that reflect latent or overt racism... (International Herald Tribune)
Struggling McCain to pitch new tax cuts Oct 14, 2008
a civil rights leader, was "reprehensible." Lewis accused the GOP on Saturday of "sowing the seeds of hatred and division" and appeared to imply that McCain was in line with segregationist George Wallace. He later said that was not his intent. (Honolulu Advertiser)
'It's a Girl!' Oct 14, 2008
"It's A Girl! No, we're not referring to Angelina Jolie's latest adoption, rather the simple announcement found on one of the more popular 2008 presidential campaign buttons -- pink in color -- available through John McCain's official campaign store, GOPTrunk.com. The button refers to the Republican party's first-ever woman vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, although it can obviously be used again and again for whenever the stork arrives. No Appointment Once upon a time, it was mostly... (Human Events Online)
Obama Should Apologize for the Hollywood Hate Oct 14, 2008
During another period, in the not too distant past, there was a governor of the state of Alabama named George Wallace who also became a presidential candidate, Lewis informed. He wrote that Wallace created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans. (Newsmax)
McCain in 'hatred' war of words Oct 13, 2008
John Lewis accused Mr McCain's campaign of "sowing hatred" against opponent Barack Obama and said he was reminded of 1960s segregationist George Wallace. Mr McCain, who recently said Mr Lewis was one of his most admired Americans, called the reference "beyond the pale". (BBC News)
Issue of race creeps into campaign Oct 13, 2008
In a provocative twist, Lewis drew a rhetorical line connecting McCain to the segregationist Alabama governor George Wallace, and through Wallace to the 1963 church bombing in Birmingham that killed four girls ... Obama's spokesman, Bill Burton, distanced the campaign from Lewis's remarks, saying Obama "does not believe that John McCain or his policy criticism is in any way comparable to George Wallace or his segregationist policies. But John Lewis was right to condemn some of the hateful... (MSNBC -- Race)
Transcript: Rick Davis, David Axelrod on 'FNS' Oct 13, 2008
" And hello again from Fox News in Washington. Well, it was a wild ride on Wall Street this week and one of the roughest so far on the campaign trail. We'll talk about the financial crisis with our two governors in a few minutes, but first, the rough back and forth between the candidates. And we're joined by Rick Davis, McCain's campaign manager, who is here in Washington, and from Chicago, David Axelrod, chief strategist for Obama. Well, let's start with the latest controversy over angry... (Fox News)
Congressman says McCain 'sowing seeds of hatred'... Oct 13, 2008
John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s ... "George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights," said Lewis, who is... (The Drudge Report)
Lewis clarifies criticism of McCain, Palin Oct 13, 2008
Lewis: George Wallace "created the climate ... that encouraged vicious attacks" ... John Lewis said Saturday that controversial remarks he made comparing the feeling at recent Republican rallies to those of segregationist George Wallace were misinterpreted ... The civil rights icon issued a statement Saturday evening which said a "careful review" of his remarks made earlier in the day "would reveal that I did not compare Sen. John McCain or Gov. Sarah Palin to George Wallace.". (CNN)
Yet another war of words rocks US presidential race Oct 13, 2008
He also appeared to suggest attacks on Obama were reminiscent of late segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace, whose rhetoric in 1963 was blamed for a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four little girls, he said. McCain said in his own statement that Lewis had launched a character attack against Governor Sarah Palin and me that is shocking and beyond the pale. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
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John Lewis is right, Senator McCain now looks like George Wallace, fomenting hatred when he has nothing positive to offer. But, one has to wonder if some of those angry people yelling vile phrases at election rallies could be deliberate plants by the McCain/Palin team, to stir up the crowd and also make McCain look like a peacemaker. (International Herald Tribune)
McCain tones down harsh Republican rhetoric Oct 13, 2008
The harshness of the Republican attacks prompted Representative John Lewis, who literally carries the scars from the beatings he received fighting for civil rights in the 1960s, to compare Mr. McCain to the politician and (later reformed) bigot George Wallace, a notorious figure from that era ... George Wallace never threw a bomb. (Globe and Mail)
Take time to correct friend's prejudice words Oct 13, 2008 McCain/Obama Election Oct 12, 2008 Lewis: McCain playing with fire Oct 12, 2008 Race row rocks US race Oct 12, 2008 Playing the Race Card Oct 11, 2008 Your OPINIONS Oct 8, 2008 Changes needed in presidential election process Oct 8, 2008 Letters to the editor (Oct. 8) (122) Oct 8, 2008 VOTER FRAUD EXPECTED TO BE RAMPANT Oct 5, 2008 Book Review: 'The Predator State' Oct 3, 2008 The fight of his life Sep 20, 2008 LETTERS: NCT, Sept. 17, 2008 Sep 18, 2008 Boyhood Home of George Wallace Destroyed by Fire Sep 9, 2008 Dissecting Liberals Sep 8, 2008 How do you say 'hypocrisy in Romney-speak? Sep 7, 2008 Some Bellwether States Losing Their Status Sep 5, 2008 Hammett not at home on witness stand Aug 30, 2008 Liberia: Ellen Signs New Anti-Corruption Act Aug 28, 2008 What happened to my country? Aug 27, 2008 Taking care of its people is what makes a country great Aug 27, 2008 Jimmy Faulkner dies at 92 Baldwin County, state loses local political powerhouse Aug 24, 2008 Primary points to another close race for governor Aug 21, 2008 Politically base Aug 17, 2008 * The legacy and failures of the US liberal hour in the 1960s Aug 17, 2008 McGovern says Democrats must stay united, on target Aug 16, 2008 More of this story Aug 13, 2008 FLASHBACK - 40 years ago, George Wallace coveted Montana Aug 12, 2008 Voters feel at home with Wexler Aug 10, 2008 Coosa Sheriff nets six Aug 9, 2008 LETTERS: NCT, Aug. 7, 2008 Aug 8, 2008 Police tracking recent wave of petty vandalism, racist graffiti Jul 25, 2008 An ambitious finale for Summer Arts Jul 18, 2008 Brownsberger: No to National Popular Vote bill Jul 18, 2008 NO PLANS TO AIR TAPE... Jul 17, 2008 It's official: GOP=2Lib4Ga... Jul 17, 2008 Helms laid to rest Jul 13, 2008 Has Sam Nunn's time arrived? Jul 13, 2008 The Obama Glissade Jul 13, 2008 Helms no hero Jul 8, 2008 Nation: Former NC Sen. Jesse Helms remembered Jul 6, 2008 Defiant Helms drove South's GOP Jul 6, 2008 Not my favorite senator Jul 6, 2008 Another win for free speech Jul 6, 2008 5-time senator 'great patriot' who held fast to his beliefs Jul 5, 2008 Peripatetic McCain takes campaign abroad Jul 3, 2008 'L.A. Times' Reporter Kenneth Reich Dies at 70 Jul 2, 2008 Jackson fuel prices up 9 cents in month Jul 1, 2008 Glad You Asked: What's the history of the Fourth of July holiday? Jul 1, 2008 Carter, Obama, and the Evangelicals Jun 29, 2008 Decision '08 election primer Jun 26, 2008 County OKs $1M For Dennison Upgrades Jun 26, 2008 New Proposal Surfaces For Substandard Housing Jun 26, 2008 Levy: Suffolk Deserves Bigger Share Of Bus $$ Jun 26, 2008 No comments posted. Jun 24, 2008 21 comments Jun 20, 2008 What's ahead Jun 19, 2008 Work a Week in Vegas, Earn $150K Jun 17, 2008 No candidate for Howard Jun 17, 2008 These country boys will keep surviving Jun 15, 2008 Five day session may be a good idea Jun 7, 2008 Two Cheers for Barack Obama Jun 6, 2008 Making History With Obama Jun 5, 2008 Why assassination talk is taboo Jun 4, 2008 If Harvard were Hogwarts Jun 1, 2008 LLOYD GRAY:RFK's unique appeal could have made a difference Jun 1, 2008
avee wrote on Oct 12, 2008 11:42 AM:" WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat and veteran of the civil rights movement, says the negative tone of the Republican presidential campaign reminds him of the hateful atmosphere that segregationist Gov. George Wallace fostered in Alabama in the 1960s.Im really getting tired of all these super sensitive groups who cant wait to find something to be offended about. Many times these people who call others bigots... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
The Heron's Nest: The campaign heats up Oct 13, 2008
He raised the ugly specter of George Wallace, the strident Alabama governor, who he said "created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.". An outraged McCain camp demanded an apology. (The Delaware County Times, PA)
McCain's Negative Campaign. The McCain campaign may have gone too far by trying to connect Obama with former radical William Ayers and referring to his middle name of Hussein. (Suite101.com)
John McCain equal to George Wallace ... The entry titled "John McCain equal to George Wallace? Barack Obama says 'no,' and John Lewis says he's been misunderstood," and any of the comments about it ... John McCain equal to George Wallace. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
He also appeared to suggest attacks on Obama were reminiscent of late segregationist Alabama governor and presidential candidate George Wallace, whose rhetoric in 1963 was blamed for a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four little girls. . (iAfrica.com)
Entire generations of Blacks have been paid and paid well to vote for the George Wallace party just like today. Acorn is paying well ask sister Monica Ray sometimes with an E.I like Micheal Steele former lt. Gov. of Maryland and Townhall columnist a gentleman who can speak to the issues and actually have government experience, who I think in 2012 should run on a ticket with Sarah Palin, because I think and I hate to say this, Obama is going to become the second Black President of these United... (Townhall.com)
In 1976, former Alabama Gov. George Wallace stated, "There is not a dime's worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties." Congressman Michael Arcuri confirms that statement by continuing the socialistic voting record of his Republican predecessor. A July issue of biweekly The New American, included its third Freedom Index for the 110th Congress, which rates congressman based on their adherence to Constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national... (Ithaca Times, NY)
George Wallace, the master of Alabama politics, once told me that he would rather have someone say he was going to win than that they were for him. Wallace knew instinctively how important the bandwagon effect was in an election. (Atmore Advance, AL)
Southern Democrats became so incensed with the growing influence of northern liberals in the party that they tried to form third parties behind conservative icons Strom Thurmond (1948) and George Wallace (1968). I attended a Wallace rally in Portland in 1968 and listened to him rave against liberals. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Political bosses such as Richard Daley or George Wallace may have died, but they have successors. Party machines in Hawaii and south Texas intimidate critics and journalists as they harvest votes from illegal aliens and the dead. (New York Post -- Opinions)
(Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning monetarist most responsible for toppling Galbraith from a revered place in the economist's pantheon, is likened to George Wallace. . (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
After graduation in 1976, he went to the Northern Territory, to Dubbo, to London, where he gained invaluable experience at the Marsden Hospital, and to the University of Alabama, where he encountered a purpose-built cancer centre, the legacy of former governor George Wallace whose wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. He settled at Camperdown's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and, in 2003, took over the Sydney Cancer Centre. (Sydney Morning Herald)
" That referred to the solid lock of white segregationists (and excluding blacks who were denied the right to vote) that delivered a reliable block of Southern votes for Democrats from the nation's founding through 1960.From 1960 through 1974, Nixon was head of the Republican Party and bringing his "Southern Strategy" and with national Democratic Party becoming increasingly pro-civil rights and the Southern Segregationists becoming increasingly marginalized, they began leaving the party. First,... (North County Times)
(WSFA) -- The childhood home of former Governor George Wallace went up in flames last night about 11 in Barbour County. Despite firefighters best efforts there's nothing left. (WSJA.com, AL)
Middle-class, church-attending, blacks often owe their unnatural allegiance to the party of George Wallace, Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd, because they listen to their ministers. Political bribes are usually frowned upon, except when the Democrats act as bagmen for the black clergy. (Townhall.com)
lime60178 wrote on Sep 7, 2008 2:33 AM:" How do you define Conservatives and why do you assume that all Conervatives are Republicans? If you remember, George Wallace was a conservative, not a liberal, and he was a Democrat. So were most other pro-segragationists. Jesse Ventura is socially liberal and fiscally conservative, and he is in neither the GOP or the Dems. As a Mormon, is Mitt really a conservative?After all, the LDS is a very progressive church in its teachings compared to some. ". max... (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)
Since 1960, the Natural State has voted for every presidential winner, except for 1968, when it was one of five states to go for third-party candidate George Wallace. Today, Arkansas is one of the last to receive attention from the Obama campaign, after losing the state 70 percent to 26 percent in the primary to Sen. (Roll Call)
Faulkner ran for governor in 1954 and in 1958, seeking the office against two formidable foes, George Wallace and John Patterson ... Faulkner told me once that one of his claims to fame was that he and George Wallace lost to the same man in the same race. (Madison County Record, AL)
Others commissioned include, George Wallace, Advisor to the President on Foreign Affairs; Counselor Estrada Bernard, Legal and Security Advisor to the President and Johnny McClain, Liberia's Ambassador to Senegal. In another development, the President has donated some assorted items Cleaning Volunteers of the Unity Party. (allAfrica.com)
It was a country where George Wallace could proclaim his loyalty to segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever and five years later carry five states and win 46 electoral votes. Nobody talked about glass ceilings in that country. (Winona Daily News, MN)
pete wrote on Aug 26, 2008 2:20 PM:" I find it laughable that she would throw in civil rights as a democrat accomplishment. It was 1963 which is so far back if you think about it that a democrat tried to block two black students from entering Clemson College. that Gov was Democrat George Wallace. We also must recall Democrat Orval Faubus Gov that called in the national guard to keep blacks out of his schools. Democrats sure have a great record on civil rights! ". pete wrote on Aug 26, 2008 2:08... (Sioux City Journal)
Jimmy Faulkner wielded political power in the days of George Wallace, James "Big Jim" Folsom and others. He was the namesake of Faulkner State Community College, Faulkner University and other institutions. (AL.com)
TDN Bad Boy wrote on Aug 20, 2008 10:16 PM:" RE Louie --- I don't know about your definition of a racist but mine is simple. Give money knowingly to a racist or a racist organization repeatedly and that makes you a racist. The racist Obama gave Rev. Wright's church (racist sanctuary) more than $20,000 for a number of a years. He chose to stay in the organization while people like Oprah Winfrey walked away in the 90s. So that makes Obama a racist. And if he were here today I would call him that... (Longview Daily News, WA)
Divisive campaigns by George Wallace and David Duke had poisonous effects on race relations for years afterward. To her credit, Clinton didn't take Penn's advice in this instance. (Boston Globe)
The Democratic majorities receded in 1966 and in 1968 Richard Nixon and George Wallace together captured 57 percent of the presidential popular vote. With that election, Mackenzie and Weisbrot say, the contours of the nations politics were set for the next 40 years: conservatives ascendant, liberals on the defensive, the broad center of American politics X where elections are won and lost X leaning to the right. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
" But late in the game, after McGovern won a closer-than-expected victory in California's then-winner-take-all primary, rivals Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie, Henry Jackson and George Wallace disputed the allocation of delegates, saying they should be given out proportionally. They took the fight to the party's credentials committee and then to the floor of the convention in Miami Beach -- just as backers of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton threatened to do this year by challenging how Michigan and... (Scripps Howard News Wire)
George Wallace can be approached, he said of the comedians. Wilson envisions acts like Tom T. Hall and Ronnie Milsap, who has been to the venue before it closed, coming, as well as Little Jimmy Dickens, Crystal Gayle, Barbara Fairchild and Barbara Mandrell, who is retired. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
We believe with the mood in Montana now and the message Governor Wallace has to share that Montana could end up in the governor s column for electoral votes, so says Jim Bob Walker, a field representative for former Alabama governor and American Independent Party candidate for president George Wallace ... George Wallace made appearances at Great Falls and Billings but garnered only 10 percent of the state s votes. (Missoulian, MT)
In that race, he attacked his opponent, incumbent Don Childers, for having supported the 1972 presidential campaign of racist George Wallace. Wexler labeled one of Childers' 1989 ads as anti-Semitic. (The Palm Beach Post)
George Wallace Lowery, 18, Alexis Delories Simmons, 18, and Paul Anthony Wilson, 42, all of Alexander City, were arrested and charged with burglary in the third degree and two county of theft of property in the second degree. The tip that led to the arrests came from a concerned citizen. (Alexander City Outlook, AL)
Or does he mean the America of George Wallace, democrat, chanting "Segregation Today... Segregation forever?". Or does he mean the fact that Exxon Mobil and Chevron employees have given more to Obama's campaign than they have given to McCain. (North County Times)
TDN Bad Boy wrote on Jul 24, 2008 9:56 PM:" Yeah we all know that Mr. McCain is racist. That is why he worked as hard as he did to establish relations between the U.S. and Vietnam. That's why his wife just returned from a goodwill trip to that counry. No the real racism in American politics has long been the burden carried by the Demoncrats. Let's see the party of George Wallace and Lester Maddux became the party of Luis Farrakan, Jesse Jackson, Obama and the evil Rev. Wright. This is also the... (Longview Daily News, WA)
His career includes a 1998 Emmy Award for portraying the late Gov. George Wallace of Alabama and an Academy Award nomination in 1994 for his supporting role as Lt. Dan in "Forrest Gump." He currently stars in the CBS drama "CSI: NY." Carole Maso, 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Conley Lecture Hall, $10, $7 students and seniors. Maso, who will present a memoir reading, wrote "Ghost Dance," "The Art Lover," "The American Woman in the Chinese Hat" and other novels. (Fresno Bee)
I am frightened by the possibility of a deviant regional candidate a George Wallace under the NPV. The NPV lacks the requirement of geographic distribution that the Electoral College enforces ... If the major party candidates split the balance of the vote in other regions, the George Wallace candidate would win. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
Jonathan Martin's Blog: Jackson used racial epithet - Politico. " Discussing the revelation with Fox anchor Shepard Smith, O'Reilly said he "held it back" because "it was not relevant to the general subject -- one civil rights leader disparaging another, over policy. (The Drudge Report)
The old Dem switched to R. If George Wallace were alive and well, IMHO he d be a Republican today. By George Hussien Washington. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
Strom Thurmond and Alabama Gov. George Wallace, Helms' backward views on race never evolved and he never recanted them. As a senator, Helms voted repeatedly against civil rights legislation, such as extension of the voting rights act and domestic programs favored by blacks. (Herald Online, SC -- Opinion)
Potentially, the nation's first black president could have as vice president a white man who grew up in segregated Middle Georgia and who in the 1970s sought the endorsement of then-segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace. In 1972, Nunn made the most daring campaign run of his life. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
From Napoleon to even George Wallace, demagogues rise to vast popularity with the image of crusading idealists ... George Wallace's bizarre political history was that initially he was not anti-black, but he lost an election with those values. (Townhall.com)
But to hear National Review and other organs of the right tell it, Helms was just another veteran Southern politician a la Alabama's George Wallace or South Carolina's Strom Thurmond who overcame his misguided defense of segregation. In fact, Helms never apologized for the unabashed racism that fueled his political rise in the 1950s and 1960s, and used blatantly racial appeals in all his election campaigns. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
He'll be remembered, in part, for the strong racist streak that articulated his politics and almost all of his political campaigns they were racialized in the most negative ways, said Kerry Haynie, a political science professor at Duke University, who noted that unlike George Wallace and Strom Thurmond, Helms never repented for such tactics. He was sort of unrepentant until the end, Haynie said. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Strom Thurmond or Alabama Gov. George Wallace -- best known for eliciting rebel yells for his unstinting opposition to the civil rights movement. "The Republican Party co-opted and took over George Wallace's program," said David Goldfield, a professor of Southern history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte ... "Jesse Helms was probably one of the leaders in doing this. George Wallace was a little bit raw in his appeal. Republicans cleaned it up and used code words like busing and... (News & Observer)
Unlike his Alabama kindred spirit George Wallace, Helms never renounced the demagoguery that propelled his political success. Despite condemnation, Helms was as incapable of admitting he was wrong as a professional wrestler is of admitting he might lose a caged death match. (News & Observer)
Inside the Calgary Herald. Military officials have launched an investigation into the death of a Canadian soldier. (Calgary Herald)
Unlike other symbols of segregation such as Gov. George Wallace and longtime South Carolina Sen. who recanted their opposition to racial integration Helms held firm. (Chicago Tribune)
When George Wallace, running in 1968 as the American Independent Party's candidate, wanted to rid himself of a distracting running mate, Curtis LeMay, he dispatched him to Vietnam on a "fact-finding mission" just weeks before the election. "Travel abroad is always a double-edged sword," Ellis said. (Boston Globe)
Starting in 1965 as a Westside bureau reporter, he went on to cover the presidential campaigns of Eugene McCarthy, George Wallace, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He was the newspaper's bureau chief in Atlanta from 1970-72, edited the op-ed page in 1972 and went on to spend five years as a political writer. (MediaWeek.com)
It has forced George Wallace Smith and his children to hang up their fishing poles ... Frederick Jackson and George Wallace Smith, both metro-area brick masons, carpool to work with two to three others each day. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Anti-war demonstrations marred speeches delivered by Vice President Hubert Humphrey in Philadelphia and Alabama Gov. George Wallace in Minneapolis on July 4, 1968. And it s a day to mark our freedoms and our triumphs. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
But he bested an impressive field of opponents: George Wallace, Henry Scoop Jackson, Morris Udall, Frank Church, Jerry Brown, and Lloyd Bentsen. And for all practical purposes, he wrapped things up by early May 1976, after winning eight of the first ten primaries that season. (Townhall.com)
A few examples will make it clear: In the 1968 election, Richard Nixon, competing with two other major candidates, Hubert Humphrey and George Wallace, won only 38 percent of the vote in Tennessee, but he got all of Tennessees electoral votes. Election A to Z questions. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Calling the move part of a multi-phase effort in safety and energy efficiency upgrades at the 12-story executive building, County Executive Steve Levy announced last week a $1. 06 million plan to replace the second of two hot water boilers deemed "past its time of usefulness," and a project to weatherproof the south and west sides of the building, had been approved by the county Legislature. (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)
The bill was put forward by County Executive Steve Levy. Introduced as an alternative to a proposal by Legislator Ed Romaine (R-Riverhead) that has been tabled repeatedly in recent months, Levy's plan calls on town governments to notify the county of all facilities that are not in code compliance, which Suffolk would then cross-reference against its own list of DSS housing. (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)
Suffolk Life Newspapers - Levy: Suffolk Deserves Bigger Share Of Bus. In a press conference earlier this month in Hauppauge, Levy called on the New York State Department of Transportation to come up with a three-year plan to dramatically increase its apportionment to the state's "largest suburban county." "Some people say Nassau gets more money than we do because they have a larger bus system - but I say they have a bigger system because they get more money," said Levy. (Suffolk Life Newspapers, NY)
George Wallace sidewalk grant up for vote ... The Troy City Council will vote today on a resolution accepting state funding for a project to build sidewalks along a section of George Wallace Drive ... City Planner Calvin Lott said there is already a large amount of pedestrian traffic on George Wallace Drive, especially college students, which helped the city win state funding for the project. (Troy Messenger, AL)
I guess it was old George Wallace who wanted segregation forever and he was a Democrat. He repented before he died right. (Human Events Online)
Preston s highlights include working with George Wallace, Rich Hall of Saturday Night Live and Weird Al Yankovic. He can count Bruce Willis as an avid fan since the actor raves about Morgan on his Web site, according to a press release. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)
"You're a freaking idiot if you try to do this," says comedian George Wallace, who has been making crowds laugh six nights a week for the past six years at Las Vegas' Flamingo Hotel. "I rent the stage, the staff and the advertising space it's all on me.". (ABC News -- Business)
Judging from the rest of Howard s reactionary, black U.N. helicopter rant, I d say he missed his chance when George Wallace and Curtis Bomb Them Into The Stone Age LeMay ran in 1968. Howard s column closes with, Remember, just because you re paranoid doesn t mean they aren t out to get you. (Wasilla Frontiersman, AK)
James Cagle of Starke hadn't seen Williams in decades, not since the singer was campaigning for former Alabama Gov. George Wallace. "It was the only time I saw him and I'm pretty sure he is about the same age as I am," Cagle, 60, said. (Florida Times-Union)
After all, he did get the funds for construction of the arena, from Gov. George Wallace s administration, and it has been suggested that came in return for Reed supporting George Jr. for the Public Service Commission. Windham hasn t finished her assignment. (Madison County Record, AL)
Team Clinton s blaxploitation recalls George Wallace. As author Bruce Bartlett details in Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party s Buried Past, this parallels Democrats long history of anti-black sentiments that far exceed the so-called code words of Nixon s alleged Southern strategy, in which the phrase law and order magically converted white resentment into electoral votes. (Human Events Online)
As the candidate spoke, Holder says, he thought about his wife's sister Vivian Malone Jones, who was one of the first two African-Americans to enroll at the University of Alabama in the face of opposition from Gov. George Wallace. He also thought about his dad, an immigrant from Barbados. (Law.com)
There are other signs pointing to the contagious nature of assassination, among them the succession from the Evers shooting in June 1963 to that of John Kennedy in November the same year to those of Malcolm X in 1965, King in April 1968, Robert Kennedy in June of that year, and, finally, the attempt on former Alabama governor George Wallace in a Maryland shopping center in 1972. Not only is the crime of assassination contagious: Most people, at some level, know it. (Boston Globe)
In 1968 George Wallace was whisked from a speaking engagement to a car in Harvard Yard via the tunnels, magically evading the angry mob outside Sanders Theatre. Azkaban: Hogwarts students dread the notorious sea-bound prison where wizards adept at the dark arts are locked away in squalor while their strange obsessions slowly drive them mad. (Boston Globe)
In a year that George Wallace was race-baiting and Richard Nixon was devising a more subtle strategy of division, Kennedy alone among the candidates had the capacity to unite divergent forces. We will never know if he could have pulled it off and helped avert a generation-plus of accelerating political divisiveness. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
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