Word: governor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After his unsuccessful 1968 presidential campaign, former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace assured his supporters that he had no intention of striking his conservative colors. He meant what he said. To keep himself in the national political spotlight, Wallace plans to declare on Jan. 15 that he will run for Governor of Alabama again in 1970. The purpose of his gubernatorial bid is clear. "We want to be in shape to go for the roses in '72," Wallace has told close friends...
...your own thing, I don't understand why someone should be put in jail for smoking marijuana," Lynn E. Hearnes, daughter of Governor Warren E. Hearnes of Missouri, said...
...served as eager spearhead, delivering another speech written by Nixon Aide Pat Buchanan. The broadside came on a mission to Alabama as part of Agnew's attempts to protect the Administration's Southern flank. The White House would like to prevent George Wallace from recap turing the Governor's mansion, so Agnew had kind words for the incumbent, Democrat Albert Brewer. In his speech the Vice President continued and broadened the previous week's attack on television news presentations to include print journalism (see THE PRESS). Agnew did not ignore his more familiar adversary, radical youth...
...Kennedy threw himself passionately into Jack's new political career. The founder spent some $50,000 for the young naval veteran's first congressional campaign. In 1952, when Jack was thinking of running for Governor of Massachusetts, Joe Kennedy persuaded him to try for Henry Cabot Lodge's Senate seat. "When you've beaten him," said Joe, "you've beaten the best. Why try for something less?" The Kennedy forces spent $500,000, dislodged the Senator by 70,000 votes...
...while I am at it. Before you begin the usual literary potshot routine on our Governor Reagan, look at recent financial statements on" the state. You will note that a very wise mind is bringing stability into state government. And from this economic base expanding stability in many other social areas will develop...