Word: rather
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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, such a plot would require a party switch by Connally, and Texans generally prefer to fight rather than switch. It would cost Connally dearly back home. "I did not seek this job," Connally told friends. "It's just hard to say no when you're asked to serve your country." Since he had turned Nixon down twice before, that explanation seemed both inadequate and disingenuous...
...close friend: "John knows the economy can't get much worse. He has nowhere to go but up. If the situation improves, he can get the lion's share of the credit. It is a situation that appeals both to his political instincts and to his rather roomy...
...Republicans in there, all of them loyal to the party, and we had seven or eight different interpretations of his banquet talk. Agnew was really shaken. For McCall, it was a session of acute personal embarrassment. But if the Vice President learns to deal with the issues in 1972 rather than to flay individuals, McCall will think it a fair trade." McCall's judgment was that Agnew "took it very well, with maturity and poise, the bitter and the sweet." However, Agnew gave no indication that he planned to change tactics...
...private deal with the Pentagon to take $20 million?enough to keep four or five destroyers functioning for a year?out of his budget if the Defense Department would match it and use the combined $40 million to build new housing units for Navy families. An admiral who would rather give his men new homes than sustain some ships is a novelty in the Navy...
...Charles tried to keep a straight face while defending the reputation of "my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather George III." His ancestor, he said, "consoled himself over the loss of the American colonies with the conclusion that more advantages were to be reaped from their trade as friends rather than as colonies." At the University of London, Charles' grandma, 70-year-old Queen Mother Elizabeth, shook a leg with the students at their annual ball. While dancing with shaggy-pated Dick Titchen, 24, in what he later described as "a sort of updated version of the waltz...