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Edited sentence: (He later achieved regional fame around Nashville as the man who paid young people $10 for memorizing the Ten Commandments.) In 1972, Fulton faced a fairly well-funded challenge from attorney Alf Adams, who tried to tie Fulton to Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern.Despite Kelly's repeated efforts to brand Fulton as an "ultra-liberal" in television spots, his campaign faltered in 1970, and he decided not to run for Congress again.Fulton was handily reelected in 1964, but in the next four cycles came closer than any Democrat before or since to losing a district that has been in Democratic hands since 1875.However, Adams was badly defeated, winning only 38% of the vote to 62% for Fulton.In 1966, 1968, and 1970, his Republican opponent was George Kelly, who owned a prominent flower shop in the Nashville suburb of Donelson.In 1968, Kelly almost defeated Fulton, losing by only four points—the closest any Republican has come, before or since, to winning the seat.It is very likely that Kelly would have won but for the presence of a candidate running under the banner of George Wallace's American Independent Party, who siphoned off enough conservative votes to keep Fulton in office.This was a considerable embarrassment to the Republicans, since Richard Nixon carried Nashville by a substantial margin—the first (and as it turned out, only) Republican to do so since Reconstruction—with the support of many local Democrats, including Mayor Beverly Briley.Wallace actually carried Nashville in that year's presidential election--the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the Democrats had failed to carry the city in a presidential election.While his opponents were unwilling to state it publicly, much of the opposition to Fulton among some voters was his unabashed support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which most white Southern Democrats actively opposed