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Connally's own brother, Golfrey, a 53 year-old economics professor at San Antonio College, is a McGovern supporter. "I have taken a policy of not commenting on my brother's activities and philosophy, the younger Connally said in an interview last week. Golfrey Connally, who has made several speeches and has conducted a number of teach ins on behalf of McGovern, attributes the development of his liberal point of view to an economics course he took at the University of Texas and a long illness "which gave me a chance to do a lot of studying...
Milhouse is a montage of film clips showing Nixon through his various campaigns, his opponents discussing his tactics, and journalists analyzing the ambitions and approach of the perpetual candidate. De Antonio begins with the lowpoint in Nixon's political career, his defeat by Pat Brown in the 1962 California gubernatorial contest. Moving back in time first to the Congressional race against Voorhis, Milhouse then explores Nixon's crises through the 1968 campaign...
...Antonio's medium offers the natural advantage of displaying the real Nixon at work. We hear the nervous laugh during his "last press conference" in California. We see his melodramatic self righteouness in explaining that, unlike Kefauver, he has kept his wife off the payroll--although Pat taught stenography. We suffer through Nixon's embarrassing attempts at humor...
Only twice does de Antonio make his point more directly than by implications arising from actual events. He contrasts Nixon's 1968 acceptance speech with Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which it mimics. Then, there are flashbacks in the middle of Nixon's "Let's win this one for Ike" exhortation to Pat O'Brien's "Win one for the Gipper" scene in Knute Rockne. The first is sad, the second, hilarious...
...reflects the disillusionment of the last decade; it transcends the congenial buffoonery which has left Meader already forgotten. The success of these works inevitably leaves us to ponder the price in blood we have paid to achieve them. Mort Sahl, in 1968, summed up a feeling with which de Antonio, Vidal and Roth would assuredly agree. It would be easy for the satirists to make fun of a President Nixon, he said, "but please don't cast your votes for our sake...