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Wallace was unable to run for re-election in 1966, due to term limits. Therefore, he offered his wife, [[File:Confem.png]] [[Conservative Feminism|Lurleen Wallace]], a surrogate candidacy for governor. She won the [[File:Demcr.png]] Democratic primary with 54.1% of the vote and later won the general election with 63.88% of the vote. She died in office in 1968.
Wallace ran for President of the United States in 1964, 1972, and 1976, though his 1968 presidential campaign was his most successful. In 1968, Wallace ran for President of the United States under the [[File:Whitesup.png]] [[White Nationalism|American Independent Party]] ticket. Wallace's platform included ending all federal efforts at desegregation, expanding the benefits of Social Security and Medicare, withdrawing from [[File:Cball-SouthVietnam.png]] Vietnam if the Vietnam War was not winnable within 90 days, and strident [[File:PolState.png]] [[Police Statism|law and order]]. [[File:RepubUS.png]] Republican presidential candidate [[File:Nixon.png]] [[Kleptocracy|Richard Nixon]], who also campaigned on law and order, worried that Wallace's firebrand Southern
In 1970, Wallace run for a second term for Governor against incumbent [[File:Soclib.png]] [[Social Liberalism|Albert Brewer]]. Wallace aired political advertisements on television as part of his campaign which later U.S. President [[File:JimmyCarter.png]] [[Neoliberalism|Jimmy Carter]] would describe as "one of the most racist campaigns in modern southern political history".<ref>Carter, Dan T. (1996), ''[https://archive.org/details/grandexpectation00patt/page/46/mode/2up From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994]'', Louisiana State University Press. pp. [https://archive.org/details/grandexpectation00patt/page/46 46–48]. ISBN 978-0195076806. Retrieved October 10, 2022</ref> Wallace narrowly won the [[File:Demcr.png]] Democratic nomination and later won the general election by a landslide.
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