1968 Election: George Wallace/Curtis LeMay's concession speeches

[hadrons]

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Ala Gov. George Wallace (racist, later reformed) and former Air Force General Curtis LeMay (wackjob and died one) won 5 states, but vowed to march on to the far-right beat

[symptom]

1. Not sure of the relevance of this to 2008, but an interesting historical

tidbit. The eerie fact remains; Wallace/'68 remains the most recent 3rd party candidate to garner any electoral votes at all, rather a remarkable feat in light of the high-profile 3rd-party candidates to blaze the sky since then -- John Anderson, Ross Perot, Ralph Nader arguably the most prominent among them. Anderson and Perot in particular got millions of popular votes but couldn't translate that to carrying a single state. It also gives one pause to reflect on the fact that most Wallace voters in '68 would likely have broken toward Nixon, not all of them enthusiastically perhaps, if the Wallace candidacy hadn't existed, yet Wallace's five states weren't enough to preclude an outright electoral majority for Nixon. Imagine what an impact on history it would have had for Wallace to carry just enough more states to leave Nixon with a mere plurality, throwing the Presidential and VP elections into a Democratic House and Democratic Senate, respectively.

[Robbins]

2. Dispute

Some believe Wallace hurt Humphrey In the south and allowed Nixon to win.Remember Nixon only won the popular vote by 1 percent.Republicans like to say CLinton didn't get a majority well Nixon sure didn't In 68 eather.Clinton beat Bush by 5 while Nixon was only 1 percent.

[MinM]

3. Burt Lancaster's..Gen. James Mattoon Scott in Seven Days in May (1964) was inspired by Gen. LeMay

Seven Days in May (1964)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vc96K6oGA8

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAlemay.htm