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To the editor:
George Bowles’ account of the Norfolk Democratic Convention, which appeared in the May 31 Sews, was of special interest to me because I had written an account of my impressions of the convention and submitted them to the paper on May 22 and hence had had to select what I thought was worth saying and what wasn’t. My account was not printed is of no consequence since Mr. Bowles told most of it.
But I too thought of the 1968 convention, (although I wouldn’t have mentioned it) where, for the first time, the delegates rejected the socalled Unit Rule sought for by then-Govemor Godwin. The governor himself chaired the resolutions committee—resolutions were all right in those days when the Governor controlled everything—and he lashed around in every way he could. I thought at the time of a welloiled snake. He kept his privilege of taking Virginia’s full delegation to the National Convention fastened in his control.
This signal occurrence, the determination of the delegates to speak for themselves, was the event of that convention. Perhaps if One only sees things from the point of view of the governor, the convention was z catastrophe, but from my view, it was an historic occa sion in the struggle of some people in this state tc achieve representative gov emment.
I thought of 1968 because Governor Robb, having made an initial mistake ir supporting Senator Glen compounded that mistake bj
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