Our next call comes from oakland, maryland. Good evening. How are you doing . Good. I remember in 1972 as a College Student at Allegheny College in cumberland, md. , he came to the campus one day. The following day he was shot at the world mall. What i can remember of that is i read about something that does not seem to be talked about much. He went through a major transition after this. I think i read that he did talk openly about it and had some sort of religious conversion so predict conversion somewhat. Also, i can remember seeing him received an award from alabamas naacp. That was in his last term as governor, i think. Am i wrong on that or not . I can remember actually watching that and i was amazed to see the transformation from segregationist to basically receiving that type of recognition. Thank you very much. We are going to be discussing all of that throughout the evening on the contenders. Give us a snapshot of what harry was speaking about. If you want to know what happens
Increases in education, the establishment of Community Colleges around the state that would be accessible to individuals who cannot afford to go to the university of alabama, but they could attend the Community College for a couple of years, maybe get a tech degree or whatever. Education was a big part of it. The underlying force of this passion for governor wallace was, at least in the 1960s, was the race issue. Our first call on George Wallace comes from michigan. You are on the contenders. We are live from montgomery alabama. Thank you very much. What appeal did governor wallace have to white ethnic, and religious groups like jews, catholics, etc. , outside of the south and the urban areas . Also, what did he take of senator goldwater . Senator goldwater was also against the civil rights stuff. Thank you very much. He did have a remarkable appeal to ethnic, particularly first generation, eastern europeans. He did not have the baggage of being antisemitic and of being antiforeign. Wh
totally different kind of views of religion in the 1960 s. politicians just did not do that during that time. with all the campaigns he ran, did he enjoy politics? hubert humphrey was the happy warrior. al smith, the happy warrior. was he a happy warrior? absolutely. he would not have been successful, i do not think. any good politician, i think, have to more than tolerate it. in his case, you would have to be a psychiatrist to figure out each politician, but i think he enjoyed the adulation of the crowd. it was a kind of love affair between him and many of his constituency. he was enormously popular in alabama. he loved that feeling of people supporting him. here is more from his 1963 gubernatorial inaugural address. each state within its own framework has the freedom to teach, develop, to ask for and received help from others of separate racial stations. this is a great freedom from our american founding fathers, but if we amalgamate into one unit as advocated by th
if you cannot distinguish at harvard between honest dissent and an overt act of treason, you should come down to alabama and we will show you some law down there. both national parties in the last number of years have about down to every group of anarchists that have roamed the streets of san francisco and los angeles. [applause] now they have created themselves a frankenstein s monster and the chickens are coming home to roost all over this country. i love you, too. i sure do. [laughter] i thought you were a she. you are a he. oh, my goodness. in california, a group of anarchists laid down in front of his automobile. threatened his personal safety, the president of the united states. if you elect me president, if i come to california, or if i come to arkansas, and some of them lie down in front of my automobile, it will be the last one they ever lie down in front of. we are joined here in the governor s mansion in montgomery, alabama two miles south of downtown m
i like gen. i do not think i voted for her. but i like a fine. she was reluctant to sign 1070. issues convinced by her advisers that if she did not sign or go along with it, she would never get the nomination. at the time she made that judgment, she was running third or fourth in the polls in her own party primary. once she signed 1070, she had a free the ticket ride at disneyland back at the governor s office. [laughter] tom, you are a friend of congresswoman gabrielle of difference. you have known her for a long time. you have worked on her campaign. is she in any way a typical arizona politician? there are many kinds of political leaders in arizona. but i will say this. i was a journalist for 10 years, a daily newspaper reporter. it is absolute enough money to give indication of your it is absolute and asthma to display any kind of a bias except for someone like gabby who never really had a bad thing to say about people she disagreed with. the way she thought about