Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone rang one evening last week in the Governor's mansion in Richmond, Va. "Hello, Governor," said the caller. "This is Ron Ziegler speaking from Air Force One." Republican Governor Linwood Holton, a longtime friend and supporter of Nixon, had trouble hearing because of the electronic noises in the background. But he recognized Ziegler's voice and the message was clear: the President wanted to see Holton at the White House at 10 a.m. the next day. Holton quickly canceled his other appointments and flew off to see the President...
Holton had a private talk with Nixon and left with a warm presidential handshake. With the White House and Holton refusing to discuss the urgent summons, politicians and reporters back in Richmond speculated that they had talked about the 1972 campaign in the South, even that Nixon might have offered Holton the vice-presidential nomination, replacing Spiro Agnew...
Charles C. Hecksher of Eliot House and New York: Steven E. Hengen of Mather House and Richmond Hill, New York; Nicholas S. Hill of Winthrop House and Old Lyme, Connecticut; Todd M. Joseph of Winthrop House and Williamsville, New York; James W. Klein of Adams House and Larchmount, New York...
...took office on Jan. 17, 1970, as the Commonwealth of Virginia's first Republican Governor in nearly a century. It was a ringing inaugural. Standing on the steps of the capitol of the Confederacy in Richmond, Holton proclaimed: "Let our goal in Virginia be an aristocracy of ability, regardless of race, color or creed." As if that were not enough for a genteel white Virginia to swallow in one day, Holton went on to invoke a provocative memory: "Let us, as Lincoln said, insist upon an open society 'with malice toward none; with charity...
...back up his policies with personal commitment, Holton sent his three school-age children to predominantly black public schools in Richmond. He did so at a time when many white parents were withdrawing their children rather than comply with court-ordered busing (Holton himself does not approve of busing). His gesture was all the more impressive in that he had a technical escape hatch; the Governor's mansion lies on state, not city property, and he could have sent his children to any school he chose...