Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reigning public has elected Wallace Governor of Alabama, Reagan Governor of California and, most likely, Maddox Governor of Georgia. I am beginning to understand why Hamilton said: "Unfortunately, they have truth on their side who say that the great mass of mankind cannot be trusted with decisions for their own welfare. The decisions had better be made by those who by birth, education or knowledge are better enabled to determine what is in their interest than are the people themselves...
...Governor; hours later it became embarrassingly clear that the winner was Republican Spiro Agnew. ABC declared Thomas Lusk the winner in the New Mexico gubernatorial race; later the network had to retract when Lusk lost. NBC earned the doubtful honor of being first to announce that Democrat Lester Maddox had won the race for Governor of Georgia. After the other networks made the same mistake, a beaming Maddox was encouraged to announce his plans over TV. Attempting to play down his segregationist past, he said: "We're gonna have a lotta common sense and a lotta common people...
...GEORGIA GOVERNOR 65% of the vote Maddox (D) 305,000 Callaway (R) 315,000 U.S. SENATOR Russell (D)* (unopposed...
Though Lester Maddox refused to serve Negroes his fried chicken, he makes no bones about soliciting their patronage at the polls. A noisy racist who shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in 1964 rather than accept an integrated clientele, Maddox won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in an upset runoff victory over former Governor Ellis Arnall, a racial moderate. Republicans thought that Maddox would be the less formidable candidate against their man, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway...
...Maddox, 51, has proved a wilier bird than even his most knowing opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going...