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...long, Connally's phone stopped ringing; he found that he was not first among equals in the White House but just one adviser among many. At the state dinner for Leonid Brezhnev last week, he told reporters: "You can give advice, but you can't make 'em take it. I'm like the old man who said, 'I can teach it to you, but I can't learn it for you.' " As a Connally friend put it: "He Dutch-uncled on Watergate, and Nixon just didn't want to hear that...
...short, acute idiom of Lincoln, Twain - or a Hoosier caricaturist named Kin Hubbard. A pity. In the voice of Abe Martin, a wise old rustic, Hubbard once cracked: "Ther's some folks standin' behind the President that ought t' git around where he kin watch'em." No matter how informed its consultants, how great its G.N.P., a country without that kind of wit is an underprivileged nation. That's only common sense...
...observe his opponents keenly. No matter what the stakes, he keeps up an amiable chatter with other players. "Some of these guys play the games real uptight," he says; "it's so quiet you could hear an ant pee on cotton. But Ah like to shake 'em up, put a rattlesnake in their pocket and ask 'em for a match...
Amarillo is happy with his life. "Ah play because Ah like the competition, and because with good players it's a game of wits. Ah'm sparring with 'em," he says. "Ah like it, but Ah don't have to play, financially or psychologically...
...want any more than what Ah have." Which is just as well. After five hours of rough hold 'em, Slim was busted by Jack "Tree Tops" Strauss, another tall Texan, in a $9,000 pot. At week's end, Strauss and five other survivors were battling for Slim's title-and the total bank...