Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost all Wallaceites believe that there are simple solutions for complicated problems. In his platform, released this week?just 22 days before the election?he says that if peace negotiations fail, he would solve the war by turning it over to the generals. Law and order would be maintained by eradicating an "unexplainable compassion for the criminal evidenced by our executive and judicial officers and officials." He would seek an amendment to the Constitution that would require the Senate to reconfirm "at reasonable intervals" members of the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts...
...parties ?with both given equal time and tirade. At some point, Wallace always notes that "both national parties have looked down their noses and called us rednecks?and I'm sick and tired of it." At another point, he declares that "both national parties ought to be for law and order. They took it away from you by kowtowing to anarchists." He adds: "There's not a dime's worth of difference between either of them...
...talk rarely varies in content, but the format does. Wallace simply chooses from his compendium of evils as they come to mind. "Now I want to say something about Viet Nam," he will say by way of introduction, or "Let's talk about law 'n' order." While the crowd is cheering, he will often spit quickly and inconspicuously into a white handkerchief...
...flight engineer with the rank of sergeant in World War II, Wallace still receives an allowance for "nervous disability" from the Veterans Administration; despite constant air travel on his campaigns, he has a phobia about flying. Before going to war, he had received a law degree from the University of Alabama, and in 1946 he won election to the state house of representatives; in 1952 he was elected a state judge. He made his first, unsuccessful, try for the governorship in 1958. His opponent, John Patterson, had taken a harsher line on race, and Wallace learned a lesson. "They...
Alabama, a historically backward state, scarcely inched ahead during Wallace's regime. With a 4% sales tax and a low property levy, its tax structure is biased against lower-income workers. As Governor, Wallace sponsored a law providing that corporate income taxes can be raised only by constitutional amendment. He did raise spending greatly, but only by floating huge bond issues and obtaining massive grants for highways and education from the despised Federal Government...