Word: lurleen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having installed his first wife Lurleen as Governor, he ran for President as a candidate of his American Independent Party. "It's the working folks all over this country who are getting fed up and are gonna turn this country around," he said. By carrying five states, he almost turned the electoral system around, coming close to causing a stalemate that would have given him the balance of power, but only close. This was Nixon's election...
Still, the relationship between George and Cornelia could directly affect Alabama politics. Wallace is barred by state law from running for re-election in 1978. Cornelia is considered a possible prospect to try to succeed him, just as Wallace's first wife, Lurleen, followed him as Governor in 1967 (she died of cancer 17 months after taking office). If the taping episode indicates a wide rift between the Wallaces, Cornelia would be seriously damaged politically; without George's all-out support, she could hardly hope to win. But Wallace promised last week that if Cornelia does...
Wallace used his incomparable political talents to capitalize on these insecurities and gain the power of the governorship. Under his name or under that of his late first wife, Lurleen, he has served at the helm of the state for almost 11 of the past 13 years. During such long tenure, one would expect the state to have been led to great heights by a man of Wallace's abilities. He has, it must be said, done some good things for our state in the areas of high-way construction and medical schools. However, he has failed to lead...
Wallace, of course, by then had run for reelection, winning a term that will not expire until 1979. If he completes it, he will have spent 26 years in public office (counting two years when his late wife Lurleen was Governor). Yet the question of why Wallace keeps running was being asked even more pointedly last week, since his fourth race for the presidency was doomed to futility. Wallace insisted after losing to Jimmy Carter in Illinois: "No sir, I'm not thinking of quitting...
Word is in Alabama that he'll seize ancient Senator John Sparkman's seat in 1978, lacking the strength to foist his wife Cornelia on the slate the way he could Governor Lurleen. "He'll go to the Senate," said one party power recently. "Folks'll want to send him where he'll be happy. What the hell else would he do? He'll speak for us, like he always did. That's one thing about George. He may never get to be President. But he can always say what's on folks' minds. Shee...