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Kennedy came to Cambridge--for the last time--almost two years later. As fromer Cambridge Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 recalls, October 16, 1963, was an exciting day. Kennedy watched the first half of the Harvard-Columbia football game and then took a sightseeing tour with city and University officials. The president examined several potential plots for the library, especially favoring a site across the street from Eliot House, adjacent to where the Kennedy School of Government stands today...
George Bush, former head of the Central Intelligence Agency, John Connally, former governor of Texas, and Rep. Phil Crane (R-Ill.) have already agreed to come, Mitropoulos said...
Only 27% ranked him as very strong, and 24% said he was weak. President Carter ended up at the bottom of the leadership list, below even Republicans Robert Dole, Philip Crane and George Bush. More than half of those polled said Carter was not a strong leader; only 12% thought...
Despite the doubts of the ideologists of the new right, most of whom are al ready committed to Reagan or Congress man Philip Crane, Connally's positions are generally conservative. He favors the SALT II treaty only if considerable new money is allocated for cruise missiles and other weapons, advocates a federal tax cut of $50 billion to $100 billion, opposes national health insurance, pushes strongly for nuclear power and the loosening of pollution laws to allow more use of coal, favors deregulation of oil with a provision that profits be plowed back to in crease production, and opposes...
Connally has proved to be a phenomenal fund raiser, bringing in $2.2 million in the first half of this year, compared with Crane's $1.7 million, Bush's $1.5 million, Reagan's $1.4 million, and Baker's $643,000. His string of lavish money-raising fetes?usually gatherings of a wealthy handful at stately homes from Newport to Easthampton to Orange County, Calif, bring in up to $1,000 per guest, the legal maximum...