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...Georgia. Carl Sanders provided him with a speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...
Philosophical Bond. Those were mild words indeed from a man who first gained national attention three years ago by brandishing a pistol and a pickax handle in the face of Negroes seeking to eat in his Pickrick restaurant-and then closed it rather than serve them...
There was Lester Maddox, happily pouring coffee for 100 Georgia legislators just as if he were back at the Pickrick, his onetime restaurant. Maddox had good reason to be happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely...
Though Lester Maddox refused to serve Negroes his fried chicken, he makes no bones about soliciting their patronage at the polls. A noisy racist who shuttered his Atlanta Pickrick Restaurant in 1964 rather than accept an integrated clientele, Maddox won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in an upset runoff victory over former Governor Ellis Arnall, a racial moderate. Republicans thought that Maddox would be the less formidable candidate against their man, Congressman Howard ("Bo") Callaway...
...opened his campaign in October with a speech blasting the Sanders administration, stated a week later that he would "continue the honest administration of Carl Sanders and Ernie Vandiver," in a flagrant move to gain moderate votes. But moderates still believe that Bo is just a Lester without a Pickrick stick...