Lurleen Wallace, Proxy Governor (1967)
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Is She a Foot Soldier or an Architect?
She is not just a foot soldier. I would say she's an architect. She adapts to it very quickly. This is somebody who was not really given any kind of opportunity to be a politician in her own right before that moment. But the agency that she had, she did quite a lot with. It does seem like her fight, her battle with cancer, is really big part of that legacy. There are a number of hospitals that are named after her. The lerlen wallace courage crusade was spear headed by her successor as governor, albert brewer. And so yes, his his past continued. Even now a federal agency attempts to tell us the schools our children shall attend
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