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...national results also included several names left out of the Harvard totals. Hubert Humphrey, Lester Maddox, John Mitchell, and J. Edgar Hoover all made the national...
...wish to offer an apology to the black people of this country for our Governor's offensive and distasteful behavior in the Capitol restaurant. Ironically, it has been our gracious Governor who has been acting like "an ass and a baboon" for the past four years. Lester Maddox has made the state of Georgia the laughingstock of the nation for the last time. In the future, everyone else will sympathize with Georgia's "problem...
...mentioned as a possible crossover, a suggestion that he denies. Texas State Representative W.R. (Bill) Archer, elected as a Democrat in 1968, is already running for Congressman George Bush's seat as a Republican. But the man most likely to switch is Georgia's archsegregationist Governor Lester Maddox. Prevented by state law and a negative court ruling from seeking reelection, he has announced as a candidate for lieutenant governor. He is thinking of running as a Republican unless his own party pays more attention to him, but the national G.O.P. has done little to encourage his conversion. Democrats...
...Georgia's Houston County, school officials were trapped between federal court orders to desegregate immediately the faculty and students of its 23 schools and a law signed last week by Governor Maddox outlawing any transportation to achieve racial integration. Federal Judge W.A. Bootle quickly issued an injunction against any delay?and the county smoothly initiated its integration plan. Not a single parent arrived to protest when Perry Grammar School, for example, increased its black enrollment from 5% to 40% and added six black teachers. "I like to think of what we're doing today as in a gallant Southern tradition?...
...Romney likely to be the only wife to follow her husband into politics this year. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox is suing to overturn a state law that forbids a second consecutive term. If he loses, Georgia politics may also feel a feminine touch as Maddox runs the missus for Governor...