Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They could scarcely have known it at the time, but 48,245 North Carolinians who voted for the Republican ticket on Nov. 5 wound up casting their ballots for George Wallace instead. This switch was decided for them by Dr. Lloyd W. Bailey, a physician from Rocky Mount and one of 13 electors chosen by the state's voters to reflect their choice. By tradition, all the electoral votes should have gone automatically to Richard Nixon as winner of a plurality of the state's popular vote. Rather than ratify the Republican victory, however, Bailey, a loyal John...
Refusing to dismiss Bailey's act as a symbolic nose-thumbing by a disgruntled right-winger, two Democrats last week challenged the wayward Republican's vote. Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, the defeated vice-presidential nominee, and Michigan Representative James O'Hara invoked an 1887 statute under which a majority of both houses may reject any vote by an elector that has not been "regularly given." The motion was soundly defeated, but the two Democrats believe that they have made a point. Said Muskie: "I hope that the consequences of Congress' action are understood...
They did, however, affirm that their demands were "not negotiable." In a letter to Abram, black spokesman Randall C. Bailey wrote that "These demands are non-negotiable because they are minimal, they have been negotiated since April 8, 1968, and were for the most part approved but have not been implemented...
...students were still interested in the meeting but rebuffed the committee proposal. "If you are truly sincere about reaching a solution," Bailey wrote to Abram, "we ask that you demonstrate this good faith and come here under the conditions outlined...
...exchange of letters Sunday between Abram and Randall C. Bailey, a black spokesman, sparked hopes that negotiations might be resumed. The blacks asked to meet with Abram in Ford Hall with two faculty members of their choice and two faculty members of his choice...