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...nearly defunct Texas college and came to the convention as a newspaper columnist. But Morris was not equal to the task of creating a "New Majority," and the rank and file AIP members prevailed with one of their own, someone who had "labored in the vineyards," former Georgia governor Lester Maddox...
...Young Americans for Freedom as Maddox snared the nomination, dashing any hopes for conservative unity this fall. And so the articulate smoothies of the Right took their money, donor lists, and relatively rational following and left Chicago a day early--their hopes buried in a large pile of Lester Maddox's racially symbolic pickhandles--pickhandles with which Maddox had little hope of denting fellow Georgian Jimmy Carter's armor...
...former Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, the choice of the American Independent Party, have threatened to take court action to stop the debates, arguing that their exclusion is discriminatory...
When Eugene McCarthy joined forces with Lester Maddox last week in an attempt to gain inclusion in the crucial TV debates between President Ford and Jimmy Carter, his action was not entirely unexpected. McCarthy, 60, has, since his 1968 campaign, made the quixotic gesture his hallmark. Indeed, his challenge over the debates was an outgrowth of his most recent attempt to reach the White House-via an unlikely independent ticket...
Agreement broke down over the choice of a presidential slate. One faction was led by another former Governor of Georgia, fast-talking, flamboyant Lester Maddox, 60, who charged that George Wallace had "joined the pointy-headed bureaucrats." John R. Rarick, 52, a former Louisiana Congressman who is anti-black and antiSemitic, headed up another. An articulate former New York judge, Robert Morris, 61, now president of the University of Piano in Texas, was the choice of the intellectuals, including William Rusher, publisher of National Review. Richard Viguerie, 42, a direct-mail specialist and publisher of Conservative Digest, was picked...