Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week and turned on his charm to sell his most cherished product: himself. Although John Connally's audience included more than 100 skeptical members of the National Press Gallery, even the clinking coffee cups were silenced. Still handsome and imposing despite the pounding of a topsy-turvy political career, Connally was in command...
...handling of the announcement demonstrated, John Connally, 61, is at the peak of his formidable oratorical powers, after a career that included stints as Governor of Texas, Secretary of the Navy in the Kennedy Administration, Secretary of the Treasury under President Nixon and even as a defendant (eventually acquitted) in a Watergate-era bribery trial. He thus became the first major Republican to announce his candidacy for President in a field that may bloom to ten before the primary-election season opens in New Hampshire...
...complex public issue, with all its confusions, turmoil and intensity, and trying to pull together the human resources to deal with it." Thus did Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller explain his political outlook during his confirmation hearings for Vice President in 1974. The words also summed up his whole political career, from his apprenticeship under a Democratic Administration to his four terms as New York Governor to his last moments in the limelight during a brief stint as Vice President. He truly loved problems and, with an exuberant confidence that few politicians could match, he thought he could solve most of them...
...paltry good news to report is that junior defenseman Jack Hughes topped Chris Gurry's career record for assists (5) Wednesday and now need just a point to pass Gurry and become the all-time leading scorer among Harvard backliners...
...frustrating my encounter with Playboy has been. It cost me grief and could have cost my husband his career...