Word: maddoxisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disliked the tussle and compromise of the senate and considered himself more of an executive, so he jumped into the gubernatorial race in 1966. Coming almost from nowhere, he finished a respectable third in the primary that was ultimately won by ax-handle-wielding Segregationist Lester Maddox. For Carter, that campaign was only a warmup. To prepare for the race four years ahead, he steeped himself in the history of Georgia, pored over state budgets and education bills, shook all the hands that he could find...
...visited one of the private academies that had sprung up in response to integration, and he paid a call on a notorious segregationist publisher who subsequently endorsed him. Carter said that he would permit George Wallace to speak at the state house, and he had kind words for Maddox, who was running for Lieutenant Governor. Many white liberals in Georgia were aghast; they have never forgiven...
Wilkie's story told of Carter's Miachiavellian campaign against liberal ex-Governor Carl Sanders, his strategy of playing to the "redneck" vote and, hence, his tactic of not attacking old-time racists Lester Maddox and Roy Harris. The story also let the air out of Carter's inflated boasts that he streamlined state government without orphaning social programs, by pointing out the confusion in the newly-created juggernaut Department of Human Resources. But the Globe story fairly assessed the divergent opinions of experts on the outcome of Carter's efficiency measures, and pointed out both his post-election emasculation...
...charges that Carter has already rebutted (TIME, Feb. 2). They include the implication that he courted segregationists during his 1970 gubernatorial campaign (he did woo the "redneck" vote, but early in the campaign he also guaranteed "equal treatment to all of our people"); that he supported Lester Maddox for Lieutenant Governor in 1970 and George Wallace for Vice President in 1972 (Maddox complained that Carter actually "worked almost as hard against [me] as he did against his Republican opponent," while Wallace once called Carter a "southern-fried McGovern"); and that he hedged on the abortion issue (unquestionably, Carter is guilty...
Carter appealed to the segregationist vote when he ran for Governor in 1970 by making friendly gestures toward arch-segregationist Lester Maddox, then a candidate for Lieutenant Governor on the same Democratic ticket...