Word: faubus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Orval Faubus saw no reason to change the tactics that had won for him five consecutive two-year gubernatorial terms. So the "po' boy from Greasy Creek" unloaded corn pone on the electorate and calumny on the head of his Repub'ican opponent, Winthrop Rockefeller, Nelson's younger brother. Rockefeller's energetic campaigning and well-financed organization were not enough, and Faubus won by a country mile...
PRESIDENT Johnson 88,097 Goldwater 61,265 GOVERNOR Faubus (D) 172,796 Rockefeller...
Arkansas: Only a few days ago, the chances seemed as thin as one of his granddaddy's dimes, but Republican Winthrop Rockefeller, 52, could now upset five-term Democrat Orval Faubus, 54, if resentment over the Jenkins case builds...
Against Rockefeller, a onetime trustee of the Urban League, Faubus has also returned to the all-out segregationist stands that made him a national figure in 1957. Last month he shouted about Negro demonstrators: "The first time they lie down in the streets to block traffic of a legitimate business, they're going to get run over. And if no one else will do it, I'll get in a truck and do it myself...
Such talk still goes over well in Arkansas, and Faubus is favored over Rockefeller. Even so, there should be one benefit: Rockefeller has already pumped enormous new energy into the once defunct Arkansas Republican Party, has 10,000 workers out beating the precincts for votes, even managed to find 172 Republican candidates to run for local offices this year, compared with a measly seven who dared try in 1960. And Rockefeller has committed himself to run for Governor again in 1966. "Win or lose," he says, "there'll be a two-party system in Arkansas after...