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...knew how to play the game. Once he began a hearing on an interest-rate bill before Wilbur Mills' House Ways and Means Committee by announcing that no compromise was possible, that the measure had to go through intact. At the hearing's end, Mills held out a compromise???and Connally snapped it up. Complimented recently on a good performance before a congressional committee, he hawed: "Well, I just got to tell the truth. I'm not devious enough to lie." A White House aide describes Connally's style: "It's deep bull, and since most of those guys...
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