Maddox was one of those people whom you can't do a cartoon version of because he already looks like a cartoon. His skinny with an oversized head, bald dome, black plastic glasses,. always in a black suit, moves with a kind of loose limbed floppiness, like a clown. There are so many oral history interviews with lesster maddoxs floating around a state of georgia that he must have spent as many hours reminiscing about his time as Gov. Maddox actually spent serving as governor.
If you disagree with someone — if you find what they think appalling — is there any value in talking to them? In the early 1970s, the talk show host Dick Cavett, the governor of Georgia Lester Maddox, and the singer Randy Newman tried to answer this question.
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