Word: maddoxisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Georgia Governor Lester Maddox wanted to ride atop the train to prove its cargo safe. The mayor of Macon, Ga., Ronnie Thompson, has vowed to use force, if necessary, to keep it from passing through his city. A Pentagon spokesman insists that the chances of "catastrophe" are virtually zero, yet the Army is quietly stockpiling quantities of a lifesaving antidote along the proposed route. The British Foreign Office (representing the government of the Bahamas) has questioned the wisdom of the plan...
Throughout, the Army clanked along with its preparations, and the gas, with or without Maddox, should be in Sunny Point by this Friday. As an editorialist in the Washington Daily News pointed out: "There is something perverse about the grand old American habit of using oceans and rivers as convenient dump holes for all manner of poisonous crud. There must be a better...
...Yankee nuisance that coincided with the fall of Vicksburg. Now, there is a new passion for the national symbol. Ronnie Thompson, the mayor of Macon, Ga., enlists the city fire department each day for a solemn flag-raising ceremony in front of city hall. Georgia's Lester Maddox, in the hospital with a kidney ailment, is embowered in red, white and blue floral arrangements...
...Maddox called the session to amend state government financing procedures. In the long run, the proposed change should save the state money, but the Constitution and the Journal questioned the urgency and warned that the special session itself could be costly. The papers even suggested that Candidate Maddox might just be grandstanding...
...Maddox? Grandstanding? As if to prove that nothing could be farther from his mind, the Governor labeled the papers' editorial writers "lying devils and dirty dogs" and then personally helped remove 29 Constitution-Journal vending boxes from state government grounds. He called for an advertising boycott against the "leftist management of the fishwrappers," urged readers to stop buying the papers until they "apologize to the people of Georgia," and announced that he would picket the papers' offices. Maddox acknowledged that his boycott and picketing gambits were inspired by the civil rights movement. "If it works for them...