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...Thomas Jefferson to James Madison...
Behind the massive walnut desk in Richmond's proud, Ionic-fronted Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785, sat florid, heavy-shouldered J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 66th Governor of Virginia in the line of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, John Tyler and Harry Flood Byrd. He had, he admitted, been under "continuous pressure." Just the night before, he and his wife had been awakened several times by telephone calls: "She'd jump up so I could get some sleep, and I jumped up so she could get some rest. Usually, it meant that both...
...Governor Lindsay Almond, highly skilled lawyer and vote-getting politician, the conflict between republican law and regional politics as dictated by prejudice comes to bear in a microcosm. Almond is a true son of the Virginia that gave to the U.S. eight Presidents, including Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the bone, blood and brain of the republic. He is equally a son of the Virginia that gave to the Confederacy its crimson fields, its grey-clad men, and above all its leaders, who should have known better...
...their strange alchemy, Harry Byrd, Lindsay Almond and the Virginia political organization are the real secret of Virginia's segregation struggle. Far from holding to Jefferson's faith in the good sense of the common people, the Byrd organization is an oligarchy, composed of the few, chosen by the few to make decisions for the many. "Let the laws be enforced by the white people of this country," cries Harry Byrd. He does not mean all the white people-or even most of them. Poll taxes and some of the nation's most restrictive registration laws hold...
...Virginia the way the Byrd machine wants it. The national tragedy is that the 66th Governor of the Commonwealth, at a time when the nation needs the type of enlightened leadership that is its due from Virginia, declines to step into the shoes of such Virginians as Washington, Jefferson and Madison, the builders of the Union...