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Segregationist governor wallace. nixon was worried that wallace was going to mount a national comeback and run for president again in 1972. nixon thought if that happened, if wallace ran again in '72, nixon thought for sure that would result in him losing the white house, because he thought that wallace would siphon off the hard-core racist vote. nixon needed that in order to get re-elected, at least as far as nixon' fish mind calculated when it came to '72. so nixon decided he needed to stop wallace's comeback. in order the stop that comeback, he decided he needed to stop wallace from getting...