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While Nixon understandably glossed over such negative aspects of his economic performance, he was not above flirting with demagoguery in considering one of the nation's most controversial issues. In a speech that drew only a few enthusiastic responses, he elicited the greatest ovation when he promised that "local...
Whites' Flight. The Richmond case runs back through more than a decade of controversy. During the late 1950s, while some Virginia schools were closing in protest against Federal orders to integrate, the State Pupil Placement Board kept integration within narrow limits. In Richmond, where the school board chairman was...
Smoother Image. For now, Wallace is content with his prospects in Florida. But he is considering entering primaries in Maryland, Wisconsin and Indiana to nibble away blue-collar support from Democratic contenders while pitching a national campaign based on law-and-order, busing and the economic plight of the little...
Still, the 1972 campaign should ultimately be more difficult for Wallace than '68. Republican strategists believe that President Nixon's stand against busing and his appointments to the Supreme Court will deny Wallace his two most emotional talking points.
(9 of 10) pledge to do so, and gave the impression that merely replacing Attorney General Ramsey Clark with a man like John Mitchell would work wonders. It did not; crime is still rising. While blacks have not been rioting, Nixon has done little to make them feel in the...