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While George watched on television in a nearby office, Lurleen went before a joint session of the legislature to demand that jurisdiction over public education be transferred to the Gover nor's office, which could then use "police power" to foil the courts. Her fiery speech invoked the tired old doctrine of interposition-the theory that a state government has the authority to prevent federal action it deems unconstitutional-and conjured up visions of parents being arrested wholesale by federal agents and of imprisonment without trial for anyone who speaks against the court. All Alabamians must "resist in every...
...outset, the 1966 campaign in the East seemed to presage danger for incumbents of both parties. Pundits and pollsters alike heralded the political demise of New York's Republican Gover nor Rockefeller, foresaw some uncertainties in the futures of Massachusetts' Governor Volpe, New Hampshire's Democratic Governor John King and New Jersey's Republican Senator Case. As a result, edgy incumbents in the twelve Eastern states fought like Trojans. And, instead of a year to "Throw the Rascals Out," 1966 wound up as the year in which Eastern voters decided overwhelmingly to "Keep...
Strengthened politically by what his detractors refer to as "the Bullet"-the shot that wounded Connally as he accompanied President Kennedy on the fatal motorcade in Dallas-the Gover nor has systematically squeezed liberals out of what few party posts they enjoyed. To U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the liberals' Washington oracle, Connally is "the worst, most vindictive, most reactionary Governor in Texas history...
Kennedy's top aide. Probable Republican nominee: Val Peterson, 62, Gover nor from 1947 to 1952, former Federal Civil Defense Administrator and some time Ambassador to Denmark...
Working with Bank of England Gover nor Lord Cromer and his British col leagues, the Americans got onto tele phone lines stretching around the world...