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President Ford must be kidding. The ex-Governor has failed in three attempts at another national office, the presidency. What is frightening is that Congress might forget this and confirm him. "A heartbeat away" is too close for comfort...
...SIDEKICK on this job who seemed to have gotten his job by bearing the name of his great-uncle the ex-governor. We went together from house to house in a big white air-conditioned Galaxie--occasionally being mistaken for the truant or probation officer--and telling poor people about how they could buy a nice little brick house from the government for only as much a month as they were paying now for rent. (A split level, which required getting an extra room, was a little more...
...cold rain had just stopped falling as they buried Lyndon Johnson under the giant live oak trees in the family cemetery near the Pedernales. "Along this stream and under these trees he loved, he will now rest," said ex-Governor John Connally. "He first saw light here. He last felt life here. May he now find peace here." Beyond a nearby stone wall, the howitzers of the Texas National Guard fired a 21-gun salute in a cow pasture...
...McGovern has carefully ducked him in Florida and Michigan, where busing is a hot issue; Scoop Jackson could never catch fire once Wallace got going. Wallace won last week's Tennessee primary two to one, and at week's end looked like a big winner over moderate ex-Governor Terry Sanford in North Carolina...
Most bravely outspoken among them is Terry Sanford, 54, ex-Governor of North Carolina who is now the president of Duke University. Last month he became a surprise entry in the May 6 North Carolina primary because, says one of his aides, "he couldn't stand the thought of a Wallace victory in his home state-and figured that nobody but Terry Sanford could beat...