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What you're not grasping is that Bryant is/was an icon in the state, but Wallace ran the state...he called the shots, and that was the way is was. The 2 men were friends publicly, but their worlds weren't in the same solor system...so to speak.

Just so we're clear, you don't believe Bryant had the clout to force Wallace's hand in '65 (had he chosen to)?

That's all I'm asking.

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Posted by thatguy1892

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Posted on 11/17/13 at 6:15 pm to DWag215

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Just so we're clear, you don't believe Bryant had the clout to force Wallace's hand in '65 (had he chosen to)?

Dude, read the damn article and STFU.

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“[Wallace] was especially watchful of the University of Alabama and let it be known to the school's president, Frank Rose, that funds would be cut if he crossed swords with Wallace on racial policies,”

I swear, you make beating a dead horse look like a vacation.

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Posted by Alabiker

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Posted on 11/17/13 at 6:29 pm to DWag215

In the mid 60s Bryant probably had very little clout when it came to dealing with Wallace. Anyone looking back has no idea how powerful George Wallace was in Alabama during the 60s. Most rural Alabamians had 2 pictures in their living rooms...one of Jesus and one of George Wallace. In 1966 Wallace couldn't run for Governor again because of term limits, so he ran his wife. She carried all but one county in the state.

Make no mistake. George Wallace ran the state of Alabama through the mid-sixties. His campaign for president in 1968 was based on fighting desegregation. No, he would not have taken kindly to having his Alma mater integrated while he was actively fighting integration.

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