Many supporters of third-party presidential candidate George C. Wallace, Sr., voted for Gurney and hence provided him a coalition of growing Republicans in Florida allied with a declining number of conservative Democrats. Gurney ran on a record that included votes against civil rights legislation, foreign aid, and that ``expensive boondoggle,'' the war on poverty. Future-President George W. Bush worked as a traveling aide for Gurney while he was running for Senate in Florida.
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