Word: godwin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most curious new coalitions to emerge from last week's elections was in Virginia, where labor un ions and Negro organizations combined with the conservative Democratic ma chine of Senator Harry Byrd to elect Mills Godwin, the Byrd candidate for Governor...
...Godwin, 50, who as a state senator in 1959 led Virginia's "massive resistance" to school integration, has modified his segregationist views since he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1961. Nonetheless, on racial issues he still stood to the right of his Republican opponent, A. Linwood Holton, 42, a Roanoke lawyer. Holton campaigned energetically against the poll tax, on which Godwin refused to commit himself, and promised to recruit Negroes for appointment to high office. But the Negro voters broke with their tradition of supporting G.O.P. candidates in state elections. Richmond's almost solidly Negro First Precinct reflected...
...exceeded by only two other states (Mississippi and New Mexico); that the state is 45th in per-capita expenditures for mental health and spends a smaller percentage of per-capita income for higher education than any other Southern state. Holton's most impassioned attacks are reserved for Godwin's anti-integration record and his support for the $1.50 poll tax, which Virginia voters must pay three years in advance of each state election. "I'm going to hang the poll tax around Godwin's neck," promises Holton, "and beat it like a brass cymbal all over...
...Godwin's neck is out. As a state senator, he led the Byrd machine's "massive resistance" campaign against school in tegration in 1959 and 1960, and has faithfully supported segregationist, budget-cutting legislation. However, since his election to the lieutenant-governorship in 1961, he has been carefully cultivating a more moderate image. Last year, with an eye to the Statehouse, Godwin campaigned vigorously for Lyndon Johnson while most Byrd stalwarts either sat on their hands or roundly supported Barry Goldwater. Godwin maintains that his earlier advocacy of segregated schools gave Virginians a "breathing period" in which...
...have liberal views but consider themselves politically independent; though employed by a Democratic Administration, they may well prefer a moderate Republican to a Byrd-backed Democrat. Whichever way they go, Holton seems certain to poll a record vote for a Republican gubernatorial candidate-but probably not enough to beat Godwin...