Word: kirke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carswell candidacy was a coup for Florida's flamboyant Republican Governor, Claude Kirk, who sees in it an opportunity to boost his own sagging chances for reelection. Not only would Carswell's popularity in Florida help Kirk at the polls, but his nomination would eliminate Cramer, Kirk's longtime rival for control of the state G.O.P. It would also help Gurney, fearful of the powerful Cramer's rivalry in the Senate. Cramer dismissed the Carswell race as "just another one of Claudius' [Kirk's] circus acts...
...wanted desperately a feeling of being important, of being something, and racism remained the pitiful core of an old bundle of corrupt, totally dishonest political oratory which gave them that feeling." The great danger to Watters is not the overt racist like George Wallace, but the "moderates." like Claude Kirk or Howard "Bo" Callaway who hide their racism behind a cloud of conciliatory rhetoric...
Love Feast. Despite Kirk's retreat, he had profited from the bizarre affair. For one thing, he won for his cause a powerful friend in court: the Justice Department. The Nixon Administration sought desperately to defuse the situation and avoid confronting the maverick Republican Governor with troops. Before Kirk caved in, Attorney General John Mitchell, in what one Kirk aide called a "love feast," talked by phone with the Governor at least a dozen times. Kirk had the Administration boxed in: almost any federal show of force would have hurt Nixon in the South...
...sequence of legal contortions, the Administration backed Kirk's position while criticizing his tactics. Kirk wheedled from the Administration a friend-of-the-court brief supporting his appeal of the Manatee case. This only pointed up the ambiguity of the Administration's position; Solicitor General Erwin Griswold at the same time filed a scathing Supreme Court memorandum criticizing Kirk's tactics...
Thank God. Kirk's grandstanding was intended to boost his sagging drive for reelection, recalling the way Orval Faubus and George Wallace had each profitably played would-be Davids against the federal Goliath while in office. Said Florida House Republican Leader Don Reed: "The overwhelming majority of the man in the street doesn't care if it's a stunt or not. Most people like the idea that the guy's got enough guts to get himself involved." For many in Manatee County, that seemed true. Television Repairman Allan W. May expressed his feelings...