Word: lurleen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...single campaign speech includes some spurious statistics intended to show that Alabama's blacks were all for Lurleen. The insistence that no one can really be against him is at first rather touching, but it has an ominous quality to it: it is the small extension of Johnsonian consensus, the point where social unity becomes fascism...
...private Wallace seems virtually emotionless. Always busy, he spends little time with his four children (Bobbi Jo, 23; Peggy, 18; George, 16; and Lee, 7); his late wife, Lurleen, reportedly once nearly divorced him as a consequence of his neglect. Yet in his anxiety to maintain a power base for his presidential bid, he did not hesitate to run her for Governor in 1966 (she died of cancer last...
...SMITH and his Alabamans used to play at rallies for Lurleen Wallace, when she was running for governor in 1966 and dying of cancer. Last night, grandly re-christened Sam Smith and his American Independent Party Band, they performed for George on Parkman Bandstand, a concrete-columned pagoda on Boston Common...
...small sign saying "Leaving State of Tennessee." On the other side of the road is a mammoth white billboard. WELCOME TO HISTORIC ALABAMA, it says. ALABAMA, CRADLE OF THE CONFEDERACY AND HEART OF DIXIE WELCOMES YOU. At the bottom, in capital letters just as large as the rest, is LURLEEN WALLACE, GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA. It's hard to read LURLEEN, because right underneath it is GEORGE. The Alabama Highway Department has always been embarrassingly short of money, and it didn't want to bother painting out George's name. Albert Brewer, who has been Governor since Lurleen died last spring...
...Nixon-Agnew teams of Fuller & Smith & Ross (annual billings: $60 million) and Feeley & Wheeler ($6,000,000) have been prepping for the G.O.P. campaign since February. Even Third Party Candidate George Wallace has a long leg up. Birmingham's Luckie and Forney, which handled Lurleen Wallace's 1964 statehouse campaign, has worked up two 30-minute TV shows...