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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Connally disliked Washington when he was John Kennedy's Secretary of the Navy in the early 1960s; he refused Nixon's offer to head either Defense or Treasury when Nixon was Cabinet building after the 1968 election. Why, then, would John Connally, a proud man and a powerful Democrat, now decide to sit in Richard Nixon's Cabinet-unless there was more in it for him than met the eye? There was speculation that the President is positioning Connally as a possible replacement for Spiro Agnew in 1972. So far, that is nothing more than guesswork. Besides...
...imports from foreign producers. What is more, Texas-always a key state politically-is vital to Nixon's strategy for 1972. Connally helped Democrat Lloyd Bentsen win a Senate seat this year from Nixon's hand-picked candidate, Representative George Bush. Nixon failed to carry Texas in either 1960 or 1968; the state's 26 electoral votes could be the difference between winning and losing in 1972. By luring Connally to Washington, Nixon could win a strong protagonist or at least neutralize a potential antagonist in Texas Democratic politics. Said one Washington Democrat: "To my dirty mind...
...easiest way to put people back to work is to put more money into the economy. That can be done by expanding the budget deficit or increasing the money supply, or by using a combination of both. In either case the President's power is limited. He can increase the budget only if Congress agrees, and he may well run into resistance from Capitol Hill's fiscal conservatives, as well as from Democratic liberals who are not at all eager to help his re-election drive. One possibility is that Nixon will offer only token opposition to spending...
...writer, such fame was unprecedented then, and has been unimaginable since. Not just fame, either, but ardor and devotion. In The World of Charles Dickens, English Novelist Angus Wilson suggests that Dickens, publishing most of his works in serial form, achieved the same intimate, regular contact with his audience as Scheherazade in his childhood favorite, The Arabian Nights. Dickens kept telling another tale. Jokes and fantasies, social and political critiques, plummy visions of Christmas swept from his pen. He even wrote a front-page article in his own magazine, Household Words, to explain and justify the breaking...
...time last week's bout began, it was clear that Ali had never met a man quite like Bonavena−either outside the ring or in it. An unorthodox, wildly swinging club fighter. Bonavena is a granite block of a man who had never been knocked out while winning 46 of 54 fights. He is so crude he can make the classiest opponents look bad. Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier found out the hard way: in the process of winning two decisions from Oscar, the champ was flattened twice and had to suffer through 25 punishing rounds...