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Muddying the outcome this year, however, are the presidential aspirations of George Wallace-even though no senatorial candidates are running on Wallace's American Independent Party ticket. How those casting ballots for Wallace and Curtis LeMay will vote for other offices, nobody knows. Yet their votes could prove decisive in neck-and-neck contests in seven states-Iowa, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma and Oregon. Alaska is also rated a tossup, because of a write-in campaign for 81 -year-old Democratic Senator Ernest Gruening, who was unseated in a primary by Real Estate Developer Mike Gravel. The write...
...Wallace-LeMay candidacy might have been a giant put on, if it hadn't revealed how deep the nasty streak of violence and racism goes in so many of us whites...
...wonder how many who, having heard General LeMay's simple truths spoken with such straightforward intelligence, can still be swayed by that old flimflam about "wasting" a vote on Wallace. A vote for any team but Wallace-LeMay would be wasting 300 years of America...
...members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were unanimous in calling for immediate military action," Bobby writes. "When the President questioned what the response of the Russians might be, General LeMay assured him there would be no reaction." At a congressional briefing, Arkansas Senator J. William Fulbright also preferred direct military action to "the weak step" of a blockade. As one of the principal debaters, U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson went to the other extreme, advocating appeasement of the Russians by abandoning the Guantánamo naval base in Cuba and dismantling missile sites in Turkey and Italy. Without elaboration, Bobby...
Hubert Humphrey, of course, has passed up no opportunity to razz Agnew about any of his gaffes and to remind voters of how close he would be to the presidency in the event of a G.O.P. victory. "Think," Humphrey demanded of audiences last week. "President Agnew and President LeMay...