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Wallace, George
- A political leader of the twentieth century. As governor of Alabama in the 1960s, he resisted integration and promised to “stand at the schoolhouse door” to bar black people from admission to the University of Alabama. The National Guard eventually forced him to back down. In 1968, he was nominated for president by a third party, the American Independent party, and came in third, behind Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. In 1972, he ran for president again, but was shot and paralyzed by a would-be assassin during the campaign. Wallace presented himself as a populist ( see populism ), who championed poor and middle-income whites against blacks and wealthy, liberal whites. In a remarkable reversal of positions, he endorsed integration in the 1980s and was again elected governor of Alabama for four years.
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George Wallace stood in the Schoolhouse Door and Ross Perot contrived the ruin of George Bush the elder.
From The Daily Beast
Editor's note: This post has been updated to reflect George Wallace's noxious candidacy.
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Michigan wins by George Wallace, Jesse Jackson, and John McCain have been credited in part to mischievous crossover voters.
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Turnipseed was an earnest, charismatic liberal who was also a reformed George Wallace acolyte.
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Still, the joke is probably on comedian George Wallace's University of Akron Zips.
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It canna be that George Wallace has listened to the poisoned breath o' scandal and envy.
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