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After three terms as Alabama Governor, and a decade as the redneck gadfly of American politics, George Corley Wallace, 59, was taking a break, and a crowd of 4,000 gathered in Montgomery to say goodbye. "I don't know whether there'll be any political future or not," Wallace told them, "so I'll just say so long for a while and God bless you." Earlier he had listened teary-eyed to words of tribute. "You might be sitting in that chair today, but to those of us who love you, you still stand and walk...
Governor George Corley Wallace is an extremely gifted and intelligent man, blessed with impressive oratorical skills, memory and instinct, the irreplaceable tools of a master politician. For over a decade he has dominated Alabama as has no other man in its history. He inherited a state in desperate need of positive leadership; unfortunately, his influence has been largely negative...
Late one night in 1974, George Corley Wallace mused in his mansion about whether he should seek re-election as Governor of Alabama. A reporter turned to the perennial candidate, paralyzed from the waist down. Why would he want to suffer through more campaigning? In a rare moment of humility, Wallace answered softly, "If I didn't hold office, how could I live? You know I don't have any money. What could...
Democrats uneasily pondered that question last week as George Corley Wallace, 56, announced that for the fourth time since 1964, he was a candidate for President. He is the tenth Democrat to declare. Although he is paralyzed from the waist down and confined to a wheelchair as a result of the 1972 attempt on his life, Wallace seemed determined to prove he is as salty and vigorous as ever. Appearing on a banner-draped platform at a motel in Montgomery, Ala., he threw away an eleven-page prepared speech and winged it. He was running, he said, to save...