A forgotten candidate and the 1962 Arkansas governor's race

[LiberalArkie]

1. A good line from the book

For the Gazette’s profile before the election I asked Cox why he had run if he knew at the outset that he had no chance of winning.

“It’s worth $10,000, or whatever I’m spending,” he said, “just to be able to tell my granddaughters, when they read in the history books about what the governor did at Little Rock, that I did my best to get him out. I didn’t just vote against him; I ran against him. It’s just a shot in the dark, but you can’t tell what will happen in Arkansas politics, if you can get your votes counted.”