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Professor of Economics and History University of Texas, Austin...
...largest dairy cooperative and a big contributor to Nixon's 1972 campaign. When it appeared that federal investigators were about to discover the gift, Jacobsen said, the pair agreed to formulate a false story that the money had remained in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box in an Austin, Texas, bank. On Oct. 29, 1973, said Jacobsen, Connally gave him $10,000 back, which Jacobsen placed in the safe-deposit box. But it was not the original $10,000, and, according to Jacobsen, Connally grew anxious that some of the bills had been circulated after 1971. Connally gave...
...that Lilly had told the special prosecutor's office of the payola, they concocted a story that Jacobsen had offered the money to Connally for political candidates but that he had turned it down and the cash had remained in Jacobsen's safe-deposit box at an Austin bank. To make good their story, Jacobsen told the court, Connally gave him $10,000, handing it over in a cigar box. Jacobsen said that he then deposited the money in the Austin safe-deposit...
...MOST entertaining piece in this issue is Molly Ivins's examination of the Texas Legislature, "Inside the Austin Fun House." Three years ago, to demonstrate the lack of attention given to proposed bills, a legislator presented a resolution that passed without dissent, honoring Albert DeSalvo for his efforts in population control. Ivins recalls another bill requiring felons to submit twenty-four hours advance notice of their intended crimes, and a free-for all during which four representatives mounted the speaker's platform to sing "I Had a Dream, Dear." A recent study of state legislatures rated Texas thirty-eighth...
...learned scholar was not without a wry sense of humor. When Law School professor Austin Scott, then just a student, and a roommate named McNeil visited the Justice at his home, they followed the traditional procedure of sending their calling cards up to him beforehand. Holmes came lumbering down the stairs, flipping the cards and reciting a ditty...