#george wallace

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CLEAN SLATE | S1E1: Desiree. And Whatnot.

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CLEAN SLATE // 1.02 "Spark Joy"

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August 1973 issue of First Monday, in which the RNC tries very hard to take the spotlight off Watergate.

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George, you and I shouldn't be talking about 1964, we should be talking about 1984. We'll both be dead and gone then. Now, you got a lot of poor people down there in Alabama, a lot of ignorant people. A lot of people need jobs, a lot of people need a future. You could do a lot for them, George. Your President will help you. Now, in 1984, George, what do you want left behind? Do you want a great big marble monument that says, "George Wallace: He Built"? Or do you want a little piece of scrawny pine board lying across that harsh, caliche soil that reads, "George Wallace: He Hated"?

President Lyndon B. Johnson, imploring Alabama's segregationist Governor George Wallace to help protect Civil Rights activists led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who planned to finish the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights which was originally interrupted by violence from law enforcement and white citizens against the non-violent protesters on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma.

Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who was in the Oval Office during the meeting between President Johnson and Governor Wallace and witnessed LBJ use his famed "Johnson Treatment" against the staunch opponent of civil rights later said, "That was the most amazing conversation I've ever been present at."

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^^^ This is what presidents used to sound like. They spoke in comprehensible complete sentences without quickly descending into idiocy and pettiness.

That's a short excerpt from a TV and radio address by John F. Kennedy from 11 June 1963. The subject of the speech was civil rights. The speech was prompted by events earlier that day when segregationist Gov. George Wallace of Alabama attempted to block the enrollment of the first black students at University of Alabama. President Kennedy had to federalize the Alabama National Guard to ensure the registration of Vivian Malone and James Hood at the university.

This is the sort of history Donald Trump and his MAGA minions are trying to suppress – and even reverse.

You can hear the entire JFK speech here and view the original transcript here.

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US counties where George Wallace received over 10% of the vote in 1968, outside of the former Confederacy