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...Virginia gubernatorial race, Democrat-turned-independent Henry Howell made a last-ditch effort to pin the Watergate label on Democrat-turned-Republican Mills E. Godwin. The G.O.P. candidate fought back by stressing the separation of party from White House, and by not bringing President Nixon or any other Republican bigwig into the state. "Watergate was a contrast to the integrity and credibility of our state government here," said Godwin. "This was a plus for me, offsetting the negative factors of Watergate...
VIRGINIA: It was a classic confrontation between a rambunctious neopopulist, Lieutenant Governor Henry E. Howell, 53, and a staid member of the state's conservative elite, former Governor Mills E. Godwin, 58. Affluent suburbanites paid $1.65 per drink at genteel Godwin cocktail parties, while blacks, rednecks and young people paid nickels and dimes for beer and soda pop at Howell gatherings. To complicate matters, both men originally were Democrats, but Howell ran as an Independent and Godwin as a Republican; the disenchanted and disarrayed Democrats fielded...
Howell barnstormed the state in a van truck called the "Howell Cannon-ball," promising to repeal an unpopular sales tax on food and nonprescription drugs. It had been enacted during Godwin's first term as Governor (1966-70). By September, Howell had a ten-point lead in the polls. That galvanized Godwin's lackluster early efforts. He started vigorously attacking Howell for being pro busing, in favor of gun controls and against the state's right-to-work law. When Howell tried to explain his previous stands on those issues-for example, he denied that he favored...
...farmer, Godwin graduated from William and Mary College and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1938. After a brief job as an FBI agent in the Midwest, he opened a law office in rural Suffolk, Va. He was elected to the house of delegates in 1948 and later became one of the late Harry F. Byrd Sr.'s stalwarts in the "massive resistance" to integration of schools. By the tune he had served a term as Lieutenant Governor (1962-66), he had moderated his views sufficiently to win the backing of both blacks...
...first term, he upgraded public education, attracted new industry to the state and sponsored a revision of the state constitution. Prohibited by law from succeeding himself, Godwin returned in 1970 to the 500-acre farm he and his wife Katherine operate in Nansemond County...