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...South's position was made clear in the course of a mild ruckus touched off by South Carolina's Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. In a letter to some 150 Southern politicos, Timmerman called attention to South Carolina's maneuver of recessing its state Democratic convention until after Chicago instead of adjourning. This procedure theoretically would allow the Southerners to walk out of a hostile national convention and reconvene as a third party. Timmerman also suggested darkly that Southern Democrats should caucus prior to Chicago...
Many Southerners, e.g., Governors Le-Roy Collins of Florida and Luther Hodges of North Carolina, were in no hurry to answer Timmerman's letter; other governors, Mississippi's James P. Coleman and Georgia's S. Marvin Griffin, got off polite but noncommittal answers. Less tolerant was the Atlanta Constitution, which acidly editorialized that "history teaches some people few lessons, especially if they happen to be governors of South Carolina." Then it put" its finger squarely on the basic weakness of third-party talk: regardless of how strong the South may feel about civil rights, it "cannot...
...weeks ago, with the next primary in sight, Strom Thurmond kept his promise, sent a letter of resignation to Governor George Bell Timmerman. At the same time he announced that he would be a candidate to succeed himself. Last week Timmerman appointed Greenville Attorney Thomas A. Wofford, 47, to Thurmond's Senate seat, which Wofford promised to relinquish in November. His probable successor: Thurmond...
...tone of the South's leaders. The other three governors reflected the painful tension that racks serious Southerners who are unable to face the prospect of desegregation and who are reluctant to defy the authority of the U.S. The case of South Carolina's Timmerman is in point. His father, George Bell Timmerman Sr., was one of the three federal judges who decided last July that Clarendon County's public schools should be desegregated, with all deliberate speed. District Court Judge Timmerman subscribed to the ruling: "It is our duty now to accept the law as declared...
...District Court Judge Timmerman swore in his son as governor of South Carolina...