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...going to be fun, folksy and down to earth," said Georgia's Lieutenant Governor Lester Maddox. He was plugging his new TV variety show, Lester Maddox-U.S.A., a combination of God, patriotism and dancing girls. The first installment, to appear on an Atlanta station this week, features Prophetess Jeane Dixon, Singer Johnny Desmond, and Maddox and his wife warbling Let Me Call You Sweetheart to the accompaniment of a player piano. "I feel that I have God-given talent in the public relations field," declared Maddox. "I am able to attract people to listen. God has blessed...
Coles' essays on James Baldwin and Lester Maddox as victims of their own rhetoric are also statements on his own methodology, his need to be specific. "I can't stand all the abstracting," he has said. "The Marxist-Freudian blueprints...
...Maddox's political visibility has given him "more opportunities to reach people about God," but he has been at his "witnessing" activities far longer than he has been a politician. Born into a Southern Baptist family 56 years ago, he recalls that "I gave my life to the Lord in 1932." He has been an active member of the North Atlanta Baptist Church ever since, sometimes as a Sunday-school teacher or the host (at the Pickrick) of the Christian Businessmen's Association...
...serious is Maddox about his witnessing that he went to his Midland appearance only hours after getting out of a hospital, where he had been treated for pulled ligaments and scrapes suffered in a bicycle accident during a Georgia Jaycee parade. Once in the pulpit, he limbered up quickly: "We hear a lot about not mixing government and religion. Well, I think the intent of our forefathers was to keep government out of the church. But don't keep God's people out of government. I'm not politicking, but I am campaigning-I'm campaigning...
...Maddox still believes-much to the embarrassment of many of his fellow Southern Baptists-in the right to segregate. "The Bible teaches freedom of choice," Maddox insists privately. "Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other?" Any racism in his church messages, however, is only implied. Moreover, claims Maddox's pastor, the Rev. R.B. Sims, "the Lester Maddox of today and the Lester Maddox of the Pickrick days are different. He has more compassion...