Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Those monkeys, those savages, all Negroes are rioters. To hell with them.' This does nothing for the guy who works at the post office and is slowly getting ready to move out. He gets destroyed while the pimps and whores go on." Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox promptly made Moynihan sound prophetic. Said Maddox of the Newark and Detroit riots: "You can't say 'please' to a bunch of savages, rapists and murderers...
Offices in Corridors. Georgia's Democratic Governor Lester Maddox airily dismisses most of the C.E.D. recommendations, instead attributes the states' troubles to a yen by Washington "to take them over." But many Governors have long been pushing the sort of reforms proposed by the C.E.D. Says Vermont's Philip Hoff, a Democrat serving his third two-year term: "The states have forced the growth of centralized Federal Government because they have failed to meet their responsibilities...
...meeting of 17 of the nation's 25 Democratic Governors a fortnight ago in St. Louis, Johnson heard assurances of party harmony and political support in '68. "What they said was music to my ears," he declared. Of the 17 Governors, only Georgia's Lester Maddox and Louisiana's John J. McKeithen declined to pledge their support for next year. The others were clearly convinced that Johnson is trying to do something about their problems; they like his assignment of Florida's former Governor Farris Bryant to formulate ways of improving federal-state relations...
...states and 39 electoral votes for the Dixiecrats, posing a real threat to Harry Truman. Mindful of the defections to Thurmond, Vice President Hubert Humphrey has for months been playing Johnson's John Alden to Southern Democratic Gov ernors-most recently and notably with Georgia's Lester Maddox-to preclude any repetition of 1948 or, for that matter, of 1964. So far, Lurleen is the only Southern Governor openly wedded to Wallace. As Virginia's Mills Godwin puts it: "I see no evidence that his methods or his candidacy offer a really effective means of protest...
Sanders described his successor, Lester Maddox as "very moderate and a pleasant surprise" on the race issue. He warned, however, that a change in Maddox's position might come this summer if there are demonstrations or racial conflicts in Atlanta...