Over the course of this year, the centenary of William F. Buckley’s birth, we will republish an article by him weekly. This week’s piece details Buckley’s interview of George Wallace and the fireworks that ensued.
We have seen that George Wallace stoutly insists that he is not to be thought of as a racist candidate, even though he has never explained satisfactorily why he was an enthusiastic national Democrat, in the tradition of Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Johnson, up until the moment when the Federal Government began to interfere with the will of Alabama on the matter of segregation. It is not as though, when Governor Wallace stood at the threshold of the University of Alabama and defied the federal marshal to carry out the court order integrating the university, he there and then repented of his former activities, perceiving the implications of state welfarism.
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