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A Report From Virginia Beach
The small air conditioners at Convention Center were doing their best, but it was still warm in the hall. Gouvenor Almond raised his unreliable finger and read the resolution committing Virginia’s delegates to Lyndon Johnson. As chairman of the resolution committee, it was his job to do so,even though he and seven others of the 28 member committee had voted against it. And he, as chairman, also had to announce to the convention that his committee moved its adoption.
Every one knew it wasn’t a question of Lyndon Johnson, but of Byrd conservatives versus Almond (liberals. An amendment was placed on the floor immediately by the Almond forces, and again, the content was of little real import, the power fight being the actual question.
Behind us sat the Alexandria-Arlington-Fairfax delegation. Well organized, agressive, about 60% female, they tried to make one vote for the Almond-liberal amendment sound like twenty. When Mayor Tom Michie declared ' Charlottesville’s votes for, they cheered loudly. When Roanoke’s sixty-odd went the same way, they roared, and when their Entire 10th District came out solidly on the liberal side, they shook the walls with their cheers. Even Greene County’s one lonesome vote, cast by E. C. Compton with Almond’s forces, as expected, brought an ovation from the
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