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Reprinted from The Tidewater News, Monday, June 13, 1966
If They Had Heard Boothe,
Could They Believe Him?
Armistead L. Boothe, who wants the U.S. Senate seat held by Harry Byrd Jr., wasn't in Norfolk for the recent opening of his campaign headquarters (here. So he spoke by long-distance telephone.
“An attempt to amplify his voice by loudspeaker,” a newspaper report said, “was not wholly successful. . . most of those in the crowd could not hear what Boothe said."
If they had heard Boothe, could they believe him?
Much “to-do" was made at the Norfolk festivities, for example, of Boothe’s role in the Virginia legislature during the I950*s, which was described < as that of a “Young Turk.”
The truth is that Boothe opposed Virginia's right-to-work law bitterly during his so-called “Young Turk” years and tried often to repeal or weaken it.
Boothe now seeks statewide office so has reversed himself and instead claims to favor right-towork, which is a glib about-face for political gain.
A key part of President Johnson’s Great Society program is to kill state right-to-work laws, including the Virginia one that has been and is a vital force in increasing the number of jobs for Virginians and the size of their paychecks.
Harry Byrd Jr. has always supported right-towork staunchly and effectively. Armistead L. Boothe has opposed right-to-work latterly despite his assertion that he now embraces it.
The only thing we rim count on with Boothe « is that we can'count on nothing at all! _H.B.
Rappahannock Cointjr Committee for -Byrd,
Dr. John Peyton Snead IV, Chairman
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