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...mentioned to his friend of 30 years, Texas Governor John Connally, that he might not run again. He voiced a similar opinion to Robert McNamara in August. In October, Johnson dictated the bare outline of a withdrawal statement to Christian at the L.B.J. ranch. Christian took the draft to Austin to show it to Connally, who was himself considering retirement after three terms...
...continued his campaign for Wisconsin primary votes, even Nixon had to admit that there was little standing between him and the Republican nomination but some catastrophic blunder of his own. "If we can't get the nomination now," he told TIME'S Loye Miller and John Austin, "we might as well just go out and sit in the sun at Miami...
...total purchase tag to just above $200. The government's cut on a $4,860 diamond bracelet is now $1,620 v. $1,080 in pre-Jenkins times; not surprisingly, the jewelers passed the increases along to the customers. The new $1,270 tag on British Motors' Austin Mini reflects a $48 rise in the old $233 purchase tax. Not forgetting the rich, Jenkins also imposed a new one-year levy on investment income, creating a situation in which a man who earns $48,000 in dividends will have to pay nearly $16,000 in taxes...
Even so, a handful of demonstrators found time to mount an antiwar picket line in Dallas. And in Austin that night, a soft-drink bottle was hurled at Johnson's car from the midst of a crowd of 200 hooting and cheering University of Texas students when the President came unannounced to Governor John Connally's 51st birthday dinner...
Asked about the development of his career as a poet, Mr. Eberhart pointed to his high school years in Austin, Minnesota. "I could write hundreds of poems with the greatest of ease, I also excelled in five sports at once, was captain of the baseball and football teams...