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George Wallace Retirement speech, April 2, 1986
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| Contributor | User 490 |
| Last Edited | User 490 Mar 20, 2004 11:14pm |
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| Media | TV News - Public Broadcasting System PBS News |
| News Date | Saturday, March 20, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | My fellow Alabamians, I come to you today in great humility and deep appreciation of the people of Alabama. They have honored me and my family more than they have honored any family in the state of Alabama. You have elected me governor four times. You elected governor Lurleen one time. So my immediate family has been involved in state government for three decades, and I am very grateful. We shared good times and prosperous times. We have seen progress and been partners in that growth of Alabama. During the hard times, we looked into the faces of the hungry and unemployed. And I'm thinking about the days of the Depression of the thirty-two, because I am a child of the Depression. I saw the old South because I was a part of it. I smelled and felt and was part of the poverty of that particular era.
I hardly know what held us together except for the people of our own state and the Southern region of our country are type that could not be held down. The old South resisted encroachment the same as the new South. But our state has come from the depths of poverty in my time, in my lifetime, that none of you have ever seen before. And we have become not only the backward part of the nation that was dealt with in the War Between the States, we are now a part of that great vibrant part called the Sun Belt.
I would like to be part of the future myself. And during the past few days, I have done much evaluation and much soul searching. And some of you younger may not realize that I paid a pretty high price in 1972, by doing what the people of our state and our region and the nation in my being the leading candidate in the '72 primaries when I was at, uh, an attempted assassination took place against me with five bullets shot into me in 1972. I have never used this before and I have never used it to bring about any sympathy for me and my former campaign for the simple reason that I did not feel it was proper to do so. The people of Alabama have elected me governor would not |
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