Word: maddox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over a drink up in the one-typewriter, one-telephone press room, Ned Young, Maddox's campaign director ("'manager' sounds too offensive") tells me the real story behind the pickhandle legend. "The Governor used to own a place called the Pickrick Restaurant and the handles were sold as souvenirs--4000 in two days one time--like those rocks they sell." I begin comparing the little innocuous pet rocks I know with the famed pickhandles and what I had heard about them when Young interrupted my thoughts to remind me once again that there was nothing symbolic about the pickhandle...
Young goes on to discuss Jimmy Carter's attitude toward Maddox when the latter served under Carter as lieutenant governor. "Carter sent word for Maddox to come see him after the inauguration. He said, 'I need no assistance from you whatsoever. If you oppose the governor's office, we will destroy...
...head upstairs to where Maddox is scheduled to address several midwestern delegations. The elevator fills up and an elderly man shoots me a quick "Hello young fella." I bait him. "Mr. Maddox, what would you have done if this was 1968 and there were demonstrators downstairs?" "I think Mayor Daley did the right thing," Lester Maddox says, emerging from the elevator to tell the crowd "regardless of where everyone else stands today, I'll still be Lester Maddox tomorrow...
...Maddox delegate Louis Kuynyo shifts from one foot to another as a boyish Fatty Arbuckle at his side snaps Maddox's picture. "I just cross my fingers we don't have another Wallace on our hands," Kuynyo' whispers...
...prospective nominees begin their final pitches forvotes Morris babbles incoherently; Rarick divided the nation into two kinds of people: "Americans and one-world internationalists"; Maddox dismisses those who don't like his image. "The radicals don't, the anarchists don't, the dope-pushers don't, the Communist Russians don't, the agitators...