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...than a million U.S. troops to battle in South Viet Nam. The following account is based on the Defense Department's official report-much of which was secret until last week-and an exhaustive Associated Press reconstruction based on interviews with officers and enlisted men aboard the U.S.S. Maddox and Turner...
More from More It would be an outrageous generality to say that the most money always wins. In 1966, Georgia's Segregationist Lester Maddox proved that a polemicist can be elected Governor just by saying the right thing to the right people. He did not even give away campaign buttons: he sold them. In 1964, Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidency cost the most ever ($19.3 million) and lost by the biggest margin ever. What Goldwater also did was to bring the Republican Party 72% of its gifts in amounts of less than $500, making the G.O.P...
Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox is not hardhearted - or incapable of the grand gesture. Last week he made the grandest gesture of his eleven-month gubernatorial career, turning loose a full 7% of the state's prison population -547 inmates who have three months or less yet to serve - for Christmas at home...
While it is a common practice for Governors to grant Christmastime reprieves, no one can remember the release of such a huge batch of prisoners at any one time.º Maddox, however, was so pleased by the success of his discharge of 147 teen-age inmates in September (only nine have since had difficulty with the law) that he plans to make wholesale opening of prisons a Georgia yuletime tradition. "We realize," he said, "that in releasing this many, some will slip up. But most of all we are concerned with those who will not." This is his way, Maddox...
...Texas' Ma Ferguson is probably Maddox's closest competitor. In two years in office (1925-27), she gave more than 3,000 prisoners their freedom...