July 7: Confined to a wheelchair, Wallace is released from the hospital and speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Miami. George McGovern is chosen as the Democratic nominee for president.

George C. Wallace was a big part of my early exposure ... that gave him personal comfort as he lived out his life in a wheelchair. After he left the governor’s office in 1987, he lived just ...

"You all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now," Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, said of Abbott at a Human Rights Campaign event. "And the only thing hot about him ...