Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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A PRESIDENT is likely to have something political up his sleeve when he takes the rare step of picking a man from the other party for his Cabinet. Dwight Eisenhower installed Martin Durkin, head of the plumbers' union, as Secretary of Labor in 1953 partly as a gesture to...
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...
Dirty Mind. Why Nixon wanted him is more obvious. The most patent reason: with the Democrats already touting the state of the economy as their likeliest issue for 1972, Nixon aimed to defuse that by putting a well-known, if scarcely liberal Democrat into his Administration's economic front...
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Other reasons why Nixon sought out Connally are rooted in the labyrinth of Texas politics. Texas oilmen, who backed Nixon financially in 1968, are not happy with the reduction in the oil depletion allowance that Nixon supported as President, nor do they like his opening the door to increased oil...