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...Lurleen Wallace, 39, a shy, honey-blonde mother of four, took the podium for 21 minutes to assure the folks that she had no intention of really governing Alabama if elected. As her husband put it, with characteristic finesse: "Both of us will be Governor of this state. I will make the policy decisions during her term of office...
...witnessed such cozy conjugality since Texas' Ma and Pa Ferguson played ring-around-a-rosy with the Governor's mansion in Austin after Pa was impeached for peculation in 1917. Since the Alabama constitution forbids a Governor to succeed himself, George's support for Lurleen is based on the communal-property concept of public office. In his intended role as a kind of local Lord Bird, Wallace hopes to build support for another third-party presidential bid as states' rights candidate...
...other gubernatorial candidates, four besides Lurleen have a chance of surviving the first primary round on May 3. They are former Governor John Patterson, a rabid segregationist, and three moderates: Attorney General Richmond Flowers, former Representative Carl Elliott and State Senator Bob Gilchrist. If no candidate gets 50% of the vote, there will be a runoff between the two top vote getters on May 31. The winner will face a stiff fight from a strong Republican Party, which is expected to unite behind its own bitter-end segregationist, Freshman Representative James Martin, 47. Martin, who entered politics in 1962, came...
Even George Wallace's best friends tried to persuade him last week that the Lurleen gambit would backfire. Lurleen is Wallace's wife, and the Governor's latest scheme to beat the state constitution's provision that he cannot succeed himself is to run Lurleen instead. "If sanity overcomes, and Wallace leaves Mrs. Wallace free to be a mother and a housekeeper," counseled the Montgomery Advertiser, Wallace's most faithful journalistic supporter, George could take a profitable sabbatical from public office and return to power later...
Meanwhile, the putative candidate, whom Wallace wooed and wed when she was a 16-year-old dime-store clerk, was already practicing for the role she may have to play as campaigner and chief executive-not to mention George Wallace's helpmeet. Lurleen was keeping her mouth shut...