Word: connors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mark as Commerce Secretary by launching an export expansion program that helped boost U.S. exports from an annual $19.6 billion in 1960 to $25 billion now. But when he was first appointed, Hodges told friends that he would quit after four years. Last week he did-and Drug Executive Connor seemed to fit perfectly the presidential prescription for a replacement...
...Connor has never been modest about his talents or about his ambitions. In 1955, when Bush was scouting for a new company president, he asked 30 top Merck executives whom they would like to see in the job. Most picked Connor, and when Connor himself was asked, he said: "I should be the new president." Connor was only...
...Liberal Businessman." Connor has long been one of the blue-ribbon U.S. businessmen that Washington officials tap for aid and advice. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco in 1961, he helped collect millions of dollars worth of drugs that went to Fidel Castro as part of the ransom for Cuban prisoners. He is vice chairman of the Business Council and a member of the Committee for Economic Development...
Politically, he is Lyndon's kind of man. Connor used to describe himself as a New Dealer, now says, "I am an independent Democrat-or a liberal businessman." But when it comes to a conflict between doctrinaire liberalism and business interests, Connor is a businessman first. In 1959, when Tennessee's liberal Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver was chairing an investigation into drug-industry pricing practices, Connor testified with patient, detailed expertise but found he simply could not penetrate the Keefs preconceptions. Connor admitted that the probe, in a general way, was not without merit, but he blasted Kefauver...
...past, Connor has argued against the Johnson Administration's effort in current Geneva negotiations to reduce tariff barriers across the board by 50% . Last week, after his appointment to the Cabinet was announced, he was still reluctant to back down. Said he: "I consider myself at the midpoint between a strict protectionist and an all-out free trader. I am against arbitrary 50% tariff cuts across the board for U.S. manufactured goods. Each reduction should also be made on a reciprocal basis with foreign competitors...