Реферат: George Wallace Essay Research Paper Former Gov

Brandt Ayers, the liberal editor of The Star newspaper in Anniston, put it

this way: “The Governor we Alabamians knew was a man of primal passion:

sincere champion of the working class, cynical manipulator of their

resentments, a sorcerer summoning the beast in our nature, a man of deep

insecurities, tenderness, and finally, humility.”

He added, “When he came to my office in 1974 campaigning for governor, I

told him: ‘George, you always claimed to stand up for the little man, but

everybody knows that the real underdog is the black man. We stood up for

him. You didn’t. Why?”‘ He did not answer. He just looked down at his legs

for what seemed a very long time.”